Ethnic cleansing in real time: Israel secretly bars medical evacuees from returning to Gaza
The Israeli regime has been “sneakily” conducting ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip by forcing medically evacuated Palestinians to sign documents relinquishing their right to return to their homeland.
Taleed El-Sabawi, an assistant professor of law at Wayne State University, made the revelation in a thread of posts on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.
“We have confirmed with multiple patient reports that in the last 1-2 weeks the Israeli regime has unilaterally & sneakily begun forcing patients who medically evacuating from Gaza to sign paperwork at the exiting checkpoints saying they cannot return to Gaza,” Sabawi said.
“None of the NGOs helping with the coordination of the medical evacs were informed by the entity or any governing body this would happen,” she added.
Condemning the Israeli regime’s move, Sabawi said, “This violates international law and given the document was signed under duress it is unenforceable—meaning it is not worth the paper it was signed on.”
Underlining that the forced evacuation should “stop as quickly as it started,” Sabawi added, “Israel thinks we aren’t paying attention, but we are. Pressure is needed on Israel to stop this illegal & sneaky practice.”
3/ A few more details I wanted to add to clarify — although I’m still investigating to learn more and want to be careful about sharing too much detailed information to protect the parties sharing the information— the papers they are asked to sign are *not* being signed at the…
— Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD (@el_sabawi) February 16, 2025
The Israeli regime unleashed a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas-led Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The Israeli military has so far killed over 48,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, and forcibly displaced almost all of Gaza’s 2.3 million population.
On January 15, the Israeli regime, having failed to achieve any of its war objectives including the “elimination” of Hamas or the release of captives, was forced to agree to a ceasefire deal with the Gaza-based resistance movement.
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