The Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said on Friday that the second phase of the war on Gaza threatens to push the population to the border and deport them to Sinai.

In her tweet on the platform, Albanese expressed her concern about the occupation army dropping leaflets calling on residents of the Gaza Strip to leave their places of residence, saying that this “may lead to the “largest forced displacement” in the long history of displacement to which Palestinians have been subjected.

International organizations expressed their deep concern about Israel's attempt to displace Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, at a time when the Israeli occupation army is still targeting civilian residents and their homes.

Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) affirms the necessity of Israel’s obligation, as an occupying state, not to forcibly transfer the population of Gaza within the occupied territory or any other country. In the event of extreme necessity, and for the purpose of protecting the population, the temporary transfer shall be within the borders of the occupying state, which means that the forced transfer to another country is not permissible in any case.

Several human rights organizations have confirmed that the forced displacement of the population of Gaza by the occupying forces is a war crime in accordance with Article 8, Paragraph 2, Clause 7 of the Rome Statute (unlawful deportation, transfer, or unlawful confinement), and it is also considered a crime against humanity in accordance with Article 7, Paragraph 1, Clause ( d) And the special issue regarding (deportation of population or forced transfer of population).