International body: Home demolitions, forced displacement of Palestinians amount to war crimes

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Dr Salah Abdelatty, head of the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People, said on Wednesday that demolishing homes, forcibly evicting residents, repeatedly displacing them and targeting civilians to terrorise them and force them to leave their homes amount to war crimes.

Speaking by phone to Egypt’s Extra News TV, Abdelatty said forced displacement is among the most serious crimes committed during the war and as Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territories continue.

He said such practices form part of genocide and ethnic cleansing and have expanded during Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip and in Palestinian refugee camp areas in the northern occupied West Bank.

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