BREAKING: #Israel's Netanyahu confirms operational plans to forcibly transfer - and possibly deport - 1.3 million #Palestinians coerced to #Rafah at #Gaza's most southern end. An operational plan conceived, as I had argued, four months ago. 
#Israel's former National Security Advisor and close confidant of the PM, Meir Ben-Shabbat, has laid out the options leading Israel down the path of a war of aggression - a gross violation of international law - on 13 October already, let's recall;
The directive to deport 2.4 million #Palestinians out of occupied #Gaza and onto #Egypt and beyond has been officially endorsed by #Israel's Ministry of Intelligence on 13 October, Ben-Shabbat being the author.
#Israel's Ministry of Intelligence deportation directive outlines the four stages: 1. A call on #Palestinian civilians to vacate north #Gaza and allow for land operations; 2. Sequential land operations from north to south Gaza (...)
3. Leaving routes open across #Rafah to #Egypt; 4. Establishing "tent cities" in northern Sinai and the construction of cities to resettle Palestinians in Egypt. Stage 3 is operationalized at present, and may very well lead to Stage 4.
The plan must be seen in light of #Israel's war of debilitation against #Gaza, amounting to the crime of aggression:
https://twitter.com/EpshtainItay/status/1755594800483782875?t=C1m6trBDKbUUxCGh9_s_hg&s=19
The grave breaches and serious violations of international law that would come from the operationalization of the #Israeli #Rafah plan are clear:
https://twitter.com/EpshtainItay/status/1755667264693477376?t=C1m6trBDKbUUxCGh9_s_hg&s=19
The mass deportation of #Palestinians from #Rafah, #Gaza to #Egypt is part of the "total war" and "new regional order" promoted by former #Israeli National Security Advisor in an article published yesterday.
His colleagues at the 'Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy' confirmed earlier this week that #Egyptian leadership opposed the deportation of #Palestinians to #Sinai "which will become a permanent presence," and offered that #Israel should force their hand (...)
Such #Israeli leverage over #Egypt includes revisiting the leniency shown by the former (in the context of CT operations) on the limits of the number of troops Cairo can deploy in the Sinai under the Camp David Accords. A veiled threat against Egyptian national security to force it to accept the presence of #Palestinian refugees.
Revisiting this morning an unpublished paper I wrote in 2022, which gives the backdrop to what Israel may use as leverage to force Egypt into accepting the protracted displacement of Palestinians in Sinai.
@Palestine_UN Ambassador Mansour in an urgent letter to Security Council President @PMUN_GUY Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett, calls #UNSC to save Palestinians from the "real threat of forced transfer," and "protect the Palestinian civilian population from further atrocities." The Council must heed his call!
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