Iran: Palestinians' forced displacement continuation of genocide through political means

Iran says the US-Israeli plan for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza is the continuation of genocide through political means.

Speaking in a televised interview on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the Israeli regime has been perpetrating massacre and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people over the past 80 years.

He added that political motives were behind the US-Israeli plan that aims to forcibly relocate the people from the Gaza Strip and push them towards neighboring countries, including Jordan, Egypt, and even Saudi Arabia.

Baghaei said that Iran has called for an emergency foreign ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in order to draw the attention of the OIC, as the most important body in the Muslim world, to an issue that is the main concern for Muslim countries

"This issue is nothing than a warning against the continuation of the danger of genocide against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza,” the Iranian spokesperson said.

Baghaei added that the ongoing “dangerous” developments in the West Bank are also on the agenda of the OIC meeting.

One of the main objectives of the OIC establishment has been to address the Palestinian people’s cause, which is the struggle for self-determination and liberation from occupation, he noted.

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As per international humanitarian law, the occupied Palestine has all the conditions that allow a nation to employ all means to assert its right to self-determination, he emphasized.

"This means that we are faced with an occupying regime or entity that has at the same time all the features of a racist and apartheid system,” the Iranian spokesman said.

All are aware that the Israeli regime is a colonial entity that has been created in the region since the end of World War II, he added.

Baghaei noted that, “The UN human rights rapporteur’s reports over the past two years clearly show the Israeli expansionism and creation of new illegal settlements through gradual destruction or entire removal of all the existing structures in terms of population and identity in the West Bank and Gaza.”

Last month, Trump proposed that Washington would take over control of the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of US troops — to create a “Riviera” of West Asia.

He said the displaced Palestinians would have no right of return since, he claimed, they would have “much better housing” in Egypt, Jordan and other countries.

Trump’s plan to expel the territory’s Palestinian residents and transform it into a “Riviera” owned by the United States was met with condemnation, including from Arab states that adopted on Tuesday a unified plan for the future of the Gaza Strip at an emergency summit in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

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The proposal counters Trump’s controversial plan to take over Gaza and permanently resettle its population.

The US controversial plan to force Gazans out of their home also comes amid warnings by the UN about Israel's intensified raids in the occupied West Bank and displacement of the population. 

In February, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warned in a statement that Israel's military offensive in the West Bank has escalated forced displacement of Palestinians at an alarming level, impacting tens of thousands people in the area.

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