Politics

The goal is to achieve a decisive victory over Hamas

A majority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet backed his proposal to prepare to conquer the core of Gaza City after 10 hours of deliberations

The coastal strip from Gaza City to Khan Younis is the main area outside Israeli control

The Israeli military controls about 75 percent of Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's risky plan is not backed by the Israeli military's chief of staff and will thrust the war with Hamas into uncharted territory

No one can be in denial about atrocity crimes Israeli military is committing against Palestinians in Gaza Hardman said

Transfer of additional weapons and assistance to Israel by United States Germany and others is blank check for further atrocities and increasingly puts them at risk of complicity

United States Germany and other countries should immediately suspend weapons transfers and military assistance to Israel

Continuing to provide arms to Israel risks complicity in war crimes crimes against humanity and other grave human rights violations

Governments should adopt targeted sanctions and other measures including reviewing their bilateral agreements with Israel to press Israeli government to comply with its international obligations to protect civilians

Governments should also publicly condemn efforts to intimidate or interfere with court’s work officials and those cooperating with institution

International Criminal Court prosecutor should investigate Israel’s forced displacement and prevention of right to return as crime against humanity

Governments should publicly condemn Israel’s forced displacement of civilian population in Gaza as war crime and crime against humanity

Governments should pressure Israel to immediately halt those crimes and comply with International Court of Justice’s multiple binding orders and obligations laid out in its July advisory opinion

Palestinians in Gaza have been living under unlawful blockade for 17 years

Blockade constitutes part of continuous crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution that Israeli authorities have been committing against Palestinians

Such actions of the Israeli authorities amount to ethnic cleansing.

Such acts also constitute crimes against humanity.

The Israeli authorities’ organized violent displacement of Palestinians in Gaza is likely planned to be permanent in the buffer zones and security corridors.

Human Rights Watch found forced displacement has been widespread systematic and part of a state policy.