Amnesty International (a non-governmental organization based in London) said that the Israeli occupation army's threats ordering the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to "forced displacement" may amount to "the level of war crimes."
The organization noted, in a statement monitored by Quds Press on Thursday, that the Israeli occupation army “dropped leaflets on northern Gaza on October 21, ordering residents to evacuate the area immediately, claiming that their lives are in danger.”
The army threatened that "anyone who chooses not to evacuate from northern Gaza to the south of the Gaza Valley may be identified as an accomplice of a terrorist organization."
The statement quoted Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Program Advisor, Donatella Rovera, as saying that "declaring an entire city or area a military target is completely contrary to international humanitarian law, which stipulates that those who carry out attacks must distinguish between civilians or civilian objects and military objectives." .
She stressed that "violating the principle of discrimination by targeting civilians or civilian objects, or by carrying out indiscriminate attacks that lead to the death or injury of civilians, is considered a war crime."
Rovira stressed that "the messages contained in these publications cannot be considered an effective warning to civilians; instead, they provide further evidence that Israel aims to forcibly displace civilians in northern Gaza."
Amnesty International renewed its call to “immediately cancel forced evacuation orders,” as well as “urgently cancel all conditions imposed on the distribution of humanitarian aid, and allow aid, including fuel, to enter Gaza in sufficient quantities to meet the urgent needs of the civilian population.”
Since the start of the war about 20 days ago, the occupation has cut off supplies of water, food, medicine, and electricity to the residents of Gaza, amid warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe and the collapse of the health system in the besieged Strip.
For the 20th day in a row, the Israeli occupation army continues to target Gaza with intense air strikes that destroyed entire neighborhoods, leaving 6,546 Palestinian martyrs, including 2,704 children, 1,584 women, and 295 elderly people, and wounding 17,439 people, in addition to more than 1,600 missing under the rubble.
