Human Rights Watch: displacing Palestinians would be moral abomination
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on February 5, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026

Human Rights Watch criticizes the proposal to displace Palestinians, calling it a moral abomination and potential war crime.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Displacing Palestinians would be a moral abomination, Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director said on Wednesday in response to a proposal from President Donald Trump for the United States to take over Gaza.
"It would be a moral abomination," Omar Shakir, from the international non-government organization that advocates for human rights, told Reuters.
"International humanitarian law forbids the forced displacement of the population of an occupied territory. When such forced displacement is widespread, it can amount to a war crime or a crime against humanity", added Shakir.
(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin; Writing by Madeline Chambers)
The article discusses Human Rights Watch's condemnation of a proposal to displace Palestinians, calling it a moral abomination.
International humanitarian law forbids forced displacement of populations in occupied territories.
Omar Shakir, director at Human Rights Watch for Israel and Palestine, made the statement.
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