Gaza, Palestine -Last month, Sofian Abu Ghassan joined hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who relax with challenge in their beaten district after a cease-fire interrupted the War of Israel at 15 months in Gaza.
The 70 -year -old man was relieved that the mass murder of Israel of the Palestinians had stopped for the moment.
However, he knew that the mass destruction caused by the War of Israel would make life difficult. His taxi company was destroyed, his house damaged and there is practically no provision in Gaza, even in drinking water.
At least, he and his family had survived the bombing of carpets of Israel and to siege and famine tactics and had returned to Northern Gaza, the only house they have ever known.
On the night of February 17, Abu Ghassan heard a program of Israeli drones, threats designed to trigger the greatest generational trauma in Palestinian history.
Israel threatened the beaten and exhausted Palestinians with a “second and third Nakba”.
The NAKBA is the ethnic cleaning of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their houses and villages by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
Finish the Nabka?
Seventy-seven years after Nakba, which Israel has never recognized, the country again threatens to expel millions of Palestinians from what remains of their homeland.
Most of the inhabitants of Gaza – 70 percent of around 2.3 million – are descendants of those who are forced to flee the violence of the militia during the first NAKBA, their villages and cities remain today by Israel.
The vast majority aspires to return to their country of origin – just as the Palestinians also made the refugees, but having fled to the West Bank or the neighboring countries due to the Nakba.
Many, like Abu Ghassan, are determined to never be uprooted from what remains of Palestine.
“Israel wants to expel us all … but it’s impossible. None of us will leave … dying here would be better, “he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Abu Ghassan has already been uprooted five times since the start of the War of Israel against Gaza, following an attack led by Hamas against South Israel on October 7, 2023.
The attack has seen Palestinian fighters leaving the enclave, described for a long time as an “outdoor prison” due to the land, air and the sea of Israel which have caused a prolonged humanitarian crisis since 2007.
About 1,139 people died and 250 captive in the attack led by Hamas.
Israel quickly launched what the United Nations experts and rights defense groups describe as a potential genocide against the Palestinians, slipping almost the entire population, deliberately strengthening people and reducing most of the enclave in rubble.
The War of Israel against Gaza killed at least 62,614 Palestinians, mainly women and children.
Now a lot Israeli politicians – and the people – gather behind a “plan” suggested by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to move the Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan with force in order to “clean” it for developers.
Explanation and denial of Nakba
The Israelis often deny Nakba and claim that the Palestinians were “accidentally” or “unexpectedly” uprooted in the context of a war for the independence of Israel, according to Ori Goldberg, an Israeli commentator on political affairs.
“There is no recognition of the Nakba with regard to the preservation of Palestinian memory or history. At best, people will say that it was a war … that we won and you lost, so suck it, “Goldberg told Tel Aviv Tribune.
However, the most credible historical accounts of NAKBA indicate a deliberate policy to keep the Palestinians away from their lands.
The renowned Israeli historian Ilan Puppe wrote in his book, the ethnic cleaning of Palestine, that the Zionist militias have deliberately besieged cities and villages, exploded houses and looted affairs before exiling the Palestinians in 1948.
In some regions, the Israelis noted, the Israelis have even planted thousands of trees to hide evidence of mass destruction that accompanied the ethnic cleaning campaign.
Diana Buttu, Palestinian analyst and former advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), stressed that many Israelis had never been forced to face their past due to the efforts of the state to hide the proofs and the memory of NAKBA.
“Many Israelis do not even know that many houses in which they live belonged to the Palestinians,” she told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“In Israel, there is a whole how to pretend that 1948 (Nakba) did not occur,” said Buttu.
A second nakba?
Although he does not publicly recognize the Nakba, many Israelis now call for a “second” by supporting Trump’s Gaza plan.
A February survey of Jewish People Policy Institute, an Israeli reflection group, revealed that around 80% of Jewish Israelis support Trump’s “plan” and that 52% think it is “practical”.
“It has always been part of the Israeli fantasy,” said Goldberg.
“Teenager, in political discussions … A question has often been asked in the direction:” Do you press a red button if it could make all the Palestinians disappear? “” He told Tel Aviv Tribune. “The answer (among most) has always been:” Yes “.”
Trump’s “plan” would be an ethnic cleaning and would probably force Israel to commit many crimes under international law, experts told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Israeli officials already thought in the same direction shortly after October 7 anyway.
Less than a week later, on October 13, 2023, a Memo disclosed from the Israel Ministry of Intelligence suggested that Israel tried to uproot the Palestinians from Gaza and reinstall them in Sinai, Egypt.
He added that Israel should request help from the world community to carry out this mission.
Throughout the War of Israel against Gaza, Israeli officials referred to the Nakba to the Palestinian Taunts.
“We are now deploying Gaza Nakba,” said Israeli Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter in November 2023, defending the uprooting of more than 1.5 million people from northern Gaza.
In May 2024, Mondoweiss, an independent media which advocated Palestinian rights, shared a photo of Gaza of Israeli soldiers smiling and posing after painting by spray “Nakba 2023” on a building.
Israel now seems to take advantage of Trump’s comments, abandon leaflets on Gaza saying that Trump’s “plan” is compulsory and Palestinians should ask for help to leave.
“Neither America nor Europe care about Gaza at all. Arab countries don’t even care. They are now our allies and provide us with weapons, oil and money and send you shrouds, ”say the leaflets.
Not for fear
The Palestinians of Gaza told Tel Aviv Tribune that they had neither frightened nor intimidated by the threats of Israel. Many think they have already survived the worst of the violence of Israel.
Mohamed Abu Ibrahim, 55, said that the threats of Israel towards “another Nakba” are psychological war.
“Honestly, I was not shocked or surprised (by these threats),” he said. “There is nothing that Israel can do who will surprise us more.”
Buttu added that Israel’s attempt to advance Trump’s “plan” indicates that it has failed to achieve its war objectives since October 7.
She said that, despite Israel’s genocide and the devastating damage inflicted on Gaza, he failed to destroy Hamas and maintain troops on the ground through the enclave.
Israel’s failure to achieve his war objectives, maintains Buttu, which is why he calls more and more the expulsion of the Palestinians.
“Just this idea that ethnic cleaning is cool, it’s okay … He really shows you where we are in this global system,” said Buttu, referring to what she perceives as a global apathy in Israel and Trump’s plan.
“It’s completely terrifying.”