GAZA (Dispatches) – Former prime minister of the Zionist regime Ehud Olmert said the Gaza Strip is a Palestinian territory, not Israeli and called for an end to the Zionist regime’s war on the enclave and a complete withdrawal from the besieged enclave, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“[Gaza] has to be part of the Palestinian state,” said the former premier at the two-day People’s Peace Summit.
“There should be a new administration linked to the Palestinian Authority, with executive powers, that will be able to rebuild Gaza,” Olmert added.
The event was organized by It’s Time, a coalition of over 60 Jewish and Arab peace building and society organizations, and supported in part by the New Israel Fund.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the summit was the largest civilian anti-war event in the occupied territories since October 2023.
The occupation regime completely sealed the Gaza Strip on March 2, banning the entry of food, water and medicines, in violation of international laws.
Weeks later, on March 19, the occupation army renewed a deadly assault on the enclave, shattering the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
It has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, most of them women and children.
An independent international human rights organization has vehemently denounced the latest remarks by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on demolition of Gaza and displacement of its population as a “modern blueprint for ethnic cleansing.”
Netanyahu said recently that the Tel Aviv regime “will continue destroying homes in Gaza until Palestinians are left without shelter, with no option but to leave.”
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, in a statement released on Sunday, said the comments mark yet another official admission from the top political authority in the Zionist entity, confirming a “deliberate” scheme aimed at uprooting a whole population through the systematic eradication of their means of survival.
Euro-Med emphasized that Netanyahu’s statements go against the reasons the regime provides for its military campaign against Hamas or any other Gaza-based resistance group, revealing that the declared aim is the forced displacement of Palestinian civilians.
The organization characterized the statements as a contemporary manifestation of ethnic cleansing occurring openly, saying the options facing Palestinians are grim: face death or endure forced expulsion. Even more concerning is that the barrier identified by Netanyahu is not international law, but rather the practical difficulties in locating nations prepared to accept the displaced individuals, it added.