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12:24 02.06.2025 •
Some 82% of Israelis support the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, according to a poll commissioned by Penn State University, ‘NewArab’ informs.
An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, aligning with the extremist Netanyahu government that has vowed to drive the Palestinians from their land.
An online poll of more than 1,000 people found that 82% back the forced deportation of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents.
The survey was conducted by Israeli polling firm Geocartography on behalf of Penn State University.
The poll also indicated high levels of hostility towards Arab Israelis, with more than half (56%) of respondents voicing support for the deportation of the 2 million Arabs who hold Israeli citizenship.
Even more alarmingly, a significant number of people expressed support for committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Israeli ministers have in recent months been advocating for the “voluntary” migration of Palestinians from Gaza, empowered by US president Donald Trump voicing ambitions for a US takeover of the territory and the expulsion of its residents.
The country’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has established a military body dedicated to accelerating their displacement.
The government vowed to “conquer” and occupy the entire Gaza Strip in a renewed ground offensive codenamed ‘Gideon’s Chariots’.
It has since issued a swathe of new displacement orders and seized more territory, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and pushing them into ever-smaller corners of the strip.
Around 80% of the territory is now off limits to Palestinians, the UN secretary-general said Friday.
Since announcing the renewed offensive, Israeli ministers have been speaking in blunt terms about their ambitions to depopulate the territory.
“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to… the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” the country’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich declared.
…The grimace of History is that a people who themselves survived the Holocaust want to commit the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
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