THE of the war of annihilation against the Palestinian people is “on hold” in the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire there and currently manifests in the violent disbandment by Israel of the refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem in the West Bank — and the systematic destruction of everything that exists within them. 

This should leave onlookers under no doubt as to the ultimate objective of the Israeli forces. 

It was not the removal of the threat of Hamas or the rescue of the hostages they took, as they claimed to the world. It was the forcible displacement of the Palestinians from their homes and the pushing of them into migrating elsewhere in a naked act of ethnic cleansing.