Barghouti: Israel aims to finish the displacement plan it began in 1948
Israel’s sole plan and goal is to complete the mass displacement and transfer of the Palestinian people that started in 1948, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, Mustafa Al-Barghouti, has said.
In press remarks to the Palestinian Information Centre yesterday, Al-Barghouti described Israeli practices in the occupied West Bank as a “genocidal war” and “part of the Israeli plan to displace the Palestinian people.”
“The occupation is depopulating the West Bank refugee camps with the aim of dismantling them because they symbolise resistance and resilience,” Al-Barghouti said.
He warned that the Israeli regime has a project backed by US President Donald Trump to annex and control the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Al-Barghouti explained, wants to liquidate the entire Palestinian existence and repeat the 1948 Nakba on a larger scale, adding the occupation seeks a transition from apartheid to ethnic cleansing.
“The Zionist war has not actually stopped. The occupation is moving with its tanks and machinery from Gaza to the West Bank to carry out the same destruction and displacement project.”
“The occupation will only change its methods in Gaza; if it is not through direct killing and military annihilation, it will do so through besieging the Strip and bargaining over reconstruction,” the Palestinian leader warned.