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Forensic Architecture said that Israel is practicing "geographic terrorism" to expand the displacement of the population of the Gaza Strip, noting that these steps reflect a tendency to commit the crime of genocide.

According to the organization - which specializes in identifying violent crimes committed by states and groups - what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip represents “engineering genocide” based on evacuation orders.

In one day, the occupation army issued evacuation orders to more than a million people who were living in the northern Gaza Strip, and asked them to go to the Gaza Valley via Salah al-Din Street, which it said would be a safe passage.

However, the organization says that the street was subjected to repeated bombings by Israeli forces, which killed dozens of civilians.

Israel also set up ambushes on Salah al-Din Street and deployed military checkpoints, especially in the area linking the street to Wadi Gaza, and carried out field executions against civilians, according to what the organization reported from eyewitnesses.

Engineering genocide and geoterrorism

An investigative investigation by the organization concluded that the mass evacuation orders issued by the occupation army to the population were “the first stage of engineering genocide in Gaza,” noting that the second stage of this process was through “geographic terrorism.”

The term "geographic terrorism" refers to the Israeli army's use of evacuations and safe passages to expand the killing of civilians, as Israel divided the Gaza Strip into geographical blocs through which it displaced 67% of the population of the north to the far south.

Israel also distributed evacuation orders, either by dropping leaflets from planes or via the Internet during periods of power outages, which made them inaccessible, according to the organization.

Evacuation orders were often random, inaccurate and misleading, according to the organization, which says that the Israeli army directs residents towards areas subject to bombing or ground attack.

For example, the army issued an evacuation order on December 3 defining the Al-Fakhoura area - south of the Gaza Strip - as a safe area, one day after declaring it a military zone.

According to the organization, this happened again when orders were issued to evacuate the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood towards Al-Mawasi, hours before it was subjected to a bloody Israeli attack.

The invasion of Al-Mawasi by Israeli forces began on January 22, in a phase that the organization’s report called “the phase of arming the safe areas.” This phase represented the peak of the systematic displacement of Palestinians, as Israel’s attacks on the safe areas escalated, including the city of Rafah.

The investigative investigation concluded that Israel used evacuation orders and maps of safe areas as a tool to gather residents in a geographical area that is not suitable for living after the destruction of all forms and components of life in it.

The investigation concluded that these stages together constitute a basis for experts to accuse Israel of committing genocide against the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera