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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Israel accused of crimes against humanity over forced displacement in Gaza

Palestinian boy standing in front of a destroyed camp
Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli shelling at a camp housing internally displaced people in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA

Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity.

The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”.

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