The ethnic cleansing of the surviving Palestinian population of northern Gaza by the Israeli state.

All the signs are pointing in that direction in terms of that happening right now.

Now given Israel's escalation of the onslaught against Lebanon,

the risk is this will be buried.

Buried, much like thousands of Palestinians

under the rubble of Gaza, many long dead,

for months even, yet still classified as missing excluded from the official

death toll. In this context, let me bring up the name of Gyur Island, a retired major general of the Israel Defense Force, so-called and former

head of the Israeli National Security Council, who's been serving as an advisor to the

Israeli Defence Minister Jove Galan. Last October he wrote a column published in Fathom Journal,

which is an outlet which is published by BiCom,

the British Israel Communications and Research Center, or the main pro-Israel lobbying group here in Britain.

Now, this is quite an extraordinary piece to say the least.

In it he declared his support for the total siege of

Gaza that itself is illegal under international law. He called it called for

even a dramatic continuous and strict siege of Gaza.

He said, this is what Israel has begun to do.

We cut the supply of energy, water and diesel for the strip, all war crimes.

He added, in order to make the siege effective, we have to prevent others from giving assistance to Gaza. Israel sent a clear message that even if they want to sell containers with diesel and other energy, we won't let it happen and if needed we will bomb those containers.

Since he wrote those words we've seen the biggest mass slaughter of aid workers in recorded history

including the killing of foreign aid workers, such as, for example, the world,

set above all else, the world's central kitchen attack back in April.

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