Israel's priorities are Israel's priorities.
The United Nations Special Committee warns that the world may be witnessing “another Nakba” or expelling Palestinians.
The committee issued an alarm on Friday accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and said it was “unthinkable pain” for Palestinians.
The comments came after Israel announced a plan earlier this week to expel hundreds of thousands of hungry Palestinians from northern Gaza and to limit them to six camps.
For Palestinians, any forced displacement evokes memories of “Nakbar” or disaster, a massive displacement created by Israel in 1948.
"Israel continues to cause unimaginable pain to those living under its occupation, and at the same time, rapidly expanding the confiscation of land as part of its broader colonial aspirations."
After finishing its annual mission to Amman, the committee added: "What we witnessed is likely another Nakba."
"The goal of a broader colonial expansion is clearly a priority for the Israeli government," its report said.
“Security operations are used as smoke screens for rapid land grabbing, mass displacement, deprivation, demolition, forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing in order to replace Palestinian communities with Jewish settlers.”
The committee also noted Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians.
It said it was clear that the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or vicious treatment or punishment (including sexual violence) was a systematic practice of the Israeli military and security forces and was widely present in Israeli prisons and military detention centers. ”
“These methods read as scripts of how to try to humiliate, demean and combat the fear in the hearts of an individual.”
The Commission's mission took place during Israel's weeks-long lockdown on Gaza's aid to Gaza.
"It's hard to imagine a government that will implement such a degenerate policy to starve the population and the food trucks sit just a few kilometers away," the committee said.
“However, for Gaza people, it’s the reality of the disease.”
In December 1968, the United Nations General Assembly established the United Nations Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs.
During the Israeli formation in 1948, about 760,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from the so-called "nakba".
About 160,000 Palestinian descendants have managed to stay in Israel, which currently has about 20% of the population.
The committee is currently composed of ambassadors of Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Senegal to the United Nations.