Displaced Palestinians walk through the rubble of Gaza. Photo by Jaber Jehad Badwan/Wikimedia Commons.

The people of Gaza had been under bombardment for nearly 20 months, experiencing terror, displacement, maiming and death without end. Their means of survival were wiped out. Because of the blockade, there was a critical risk of famine. It was at this point that, on May 18, Israel launched a ground invasion with the stated aim of corralling the population into just 20 percent of the territory and completing the destruction of the remaining civilian infrastructure, leaving Palestinians “nowhere to return to.” On May 21, Benjamin Netanyahu added the implementation of the “Trump plan” to his demands: the expulsion of the Palestinians and US control of the Gaza Strip.

On May 19, Canada issued a joint statement........

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