Forced displacement of Palestinians ‘moral abomination’: HRW

Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine country director of Human Rights Watch, described the forced displacement of Palestinians as per US President Donald Trump’s proposals as a “moral abomination”.

In response to Trump’s remarks made on Tuesday in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Shakir told Reuters that “international humanitarian law forbids the forced displacement of the population of an occupied territory”.

He added: “When such forced displacement is widespread, it can amount to a war crime or a crime against humanity.”