Opinion: The world cannot stand by and watch this slaughter

Israeli columnist and journalist Gideon Levy said Israel's order to forcibly eject  1.1m Palestinians in Gaza from their homes within 24 hours is "impossible, illegal, inhuman and impractical".

"In other words, Israel is threatening to commit a war crime the likes of which we have not seen since the Nakba of 1948," Levy said in an op-ed published on Middle East Eye.

"Very possibly, this is all talk and threats; Israel may not ultimately invade Gaza, and a million people may not be evicted. In any case, nearly half-a-million are newly homeless following unprecedented bombings of Gaza neighbourhoods by the Israeli Air Force.

"These are dark days. Dark days for Israelis, who woke up last Saturday to a reality that turned upside-down their conception of their world that they had embraced for years."

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