Hamas welcomes Trump’s pullback from Gaza mass displacement plan !
quack quack... says ‘nobody is expelling Palestinians from Gaza’, reversing earlier comments on emptying the war-torn territory of its population.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has welcomed United States President Donald Trump’s apparent RETREAT from his proposed permanent displacement of more than two million Palestinians from Gaza.
“If US President Trump’s statements represent a retreat from any idea of displacing the people of the Gaza Strip, they are welcomed,” Qassem said in the statement.
“We call for this position to be reinforced by obligating the Israeli occupation to implement all the terms of the ceasefire agreements,” he added.
The 42-day first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal expired earlier this month without agreement from Israel on subsequent stages meant to secure a lasting end to its war on Gaza.
Israel has since imposed a complete blockade on Gaza, which has entered a 12th day and includes preventing the entry of food, fuel and medicines to the territory in what has been described as an act of collective punishment and Israel’s “weaponisation of humanitarian aid” to pressure Hamas.
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Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’: UN probe
UN experts say Israel ‘intentionally attacked and destroyed’ the Palestinian territory’s main fertility centre.
Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts have said.
On Thursday, the Geneva-based Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in a new report that Israel “intentionally attacked and destroyed” Gaza’s main fertility centre while simultaneously blocking medicine for pregnancies, deliveries and neonatal care from entering the enclave.
For its part, “Israel categorically rejects the unfounded allegations”, its mission in Geneva said in a statement.
Israel had targeted civilian women and girls directly, “acts that constitute the crime against humanity of murder and the war crime of wilful killing”.
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