Israelis no longer blush at calls for Palestinian extermination

At the end of October 2023, Local Call published the full text of a plan formulated by Gila Gamliel, then Israel’s minister of intelligence, for the “evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai”. 

The plan received extensive coverage around the world and was viewed as proof that Israel's real goal in its war in Gaza - at that time still in the aerial bombing phase before the ground invasion - was not to “eliminate Hamas” but to expel the Palestinians from Gaza. 

Coverage in Israel, however, was limited - perhaps because the Ministry of Intelligence had no authority (it has since been closed), perhaps because Gamliel had no real political weight and perhaps because the Israeli media prefers not to deal with the war crimes that Israel is planning.

Sixteen months later, Gamliel's plan has effectively become the official plan of the Israeli government. 

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