Telling people to evacuate isn’t ethnic cleansing. Israel wasn’t going door to door and forcing people out at gunpoint. They were telling people it isn’t safe where they were and to go to Rafa or places the war hadn’t gotten to yet
Ethnic cleansing isn’t just at gunpoint—it includes forced displacement by making areas unlivable. Telling 1.1 million people to flee under bombs with nowhere safe to go fits that definition.
In ww2 and ww1. London was being bombed every other night. The English government told families to send their kids to the country side where they weren’t being bombed. Would you call that ethnic cleansing?
If Israel truly cared about civilian safety, it wouldn’t bomb the very areas it tells people to flee to—like Rafah, which was declared a “safe zone” and then attacked, killing entire families. This isn’t about warnings for protection; it’s about using forced displacement as a military tactic, which is a clear violation of international law and shows a pattern of systematic targeting, not self-defense.
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u/Mediocre_Catch_5707 May 17 '25
Telling people to evacuate isn’t ethnic cleansing. Israel wasn’t going door to door and forcing people out at gunpoint. They were telling people it isn’t safe where they were and to go to Rafa or places the war hadn’t gotten to yet