“I think first and foremost we absolutely have to stop repeating this word ‘evacuation’. Israeli officials have obviously continuously used this word, but actually they’ve completely misused the word over the last year in the way that they’ve forced Palestinians to displace from one place to another, upwards of ten times in some cases.”
“The word ‘evacuation’, we associate it with safety – with moving from a place of danger to a place of safety for a temporary period before then returning home. And every aspect of that is false in this case. Not only is there nowhere safe, but we also know from reports that these so-called safe zones have then been explicitly targeted by the Israeli military once people were forced to go there, and then not only that but these areas that people have been displaced from have been completely obliterated. So there is no possibility that they can then return home.” — Caitlin Procter, Human Rights Watch report
