> "army ordered civilians to evacuate from warzone so it's genocide" is not as great argument as you think
The trick, though, was to keep doing it, over and over, expanding the area each time, so people never stop having to evacuate, or give up and stay in place to die.
"More than three-quarters of Gaza's territory have been designated as evacuation zones by the Israeli military since the war against Hamas began in October, an analysis by BBC Arabic has found."
At a certain point, it becomes plain old ethnic cleansing.
How could relocation within the same territory be ethnic cleansing? By that logic, I was ethnically cleansed by our fire department due to an approaching wildfire. Ethnic cleaning also wouldn't imply genocide anyway.
> So the Warsaw ghetto wasn't ethnic cleasing because they stayed in Poland?
I suppose you have a point, my framing was off. But the IDF asking people to leave a dangerous area is much closer to a fire evacuation than a ghetto where residents are broadly denied freedom of movement.
> Did they leave people of certain ethnicities out of the evacuation?
Neither did. IDF couldn't care less about someone's skin color either, just that they're in a dangerous area. Jews would have been asked to leave just like anyone else, had they not already been ethnically cleansed from Gaza in 2005.
> How exactly do you expect Israel to fight a war without creating dangerous areas?
Forced displacement is a war crime. 90% of Gazans have been displaced, with up to 3/4 of the area under interdict (and the areas outside that were still bombed quite regularly). War certainly comes with some inherent danger, but beligerents have responsibilities to civilian populations, especially ones in territories they occupy.
> The target population they sought to evacuate is just whoever resided in the combat area, which is not an ethnicity.
This is not an argument made in good faith, and you know it.
With a very important exception for the security of civilians. It's much better to ask civilians to leave before a major military operation than to just start the operation with all the civilians there.
Or do you have a different suggestion for what Israel should done? Just left Hamas alone after Oct 7?
> beligerents have responsibilities to civilian populations
Of course, but you haven't identified any particular responsibilities that were not met here.
> This is not an argument made in good faith, and you know it.
Do you have an actual argument for why what look like standard measures to minimize civilian harm were actually some backdoor ethnic cleansing scheme?
There's no single agreed upon definition. Many of them include ethnic cleansing as a form, using wording like "the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups".
here we go. you finally used (by mistake, but we won't count this against you) appropriate verb: "displaced". population in gaza is displaced but still in gaza.
While on the other side population of Nagorno Karabakh was ethnically cleansed from Nagorno Karabakh and had to leave to Armenia.
a) they were not ethnically cleansed. even article says "displaced". this is what usually called "internally displaced". My relatives in Ukraine are "internally displaced". There was also 500k Israeli that were internally displaced during war.
b) most of cities/population in gaza is west of yellow line
d) CMCC is currently developing protocols for how to let population move east of yellow line (while preventing militants doing so), because this is where international community starts reconstruction efforts and where ISF will be deployed
The trick, though, was to keep doing it, over and over, expanding the area each time, so people never stop having to evacuate, or give up and stay in place to die.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c299pl8j8w7o
"More than three-quarters of Gaza's territory have been designated as evacuation zones by the Israeli military since the war against Hamas began in October, an analysis by BBC Arabic has found."
At a certain point, it becomes plain old ethnic cleansing.