‘Without sanctions, Israeli actions in Gaza will face no meaningful opposition’

Xavier Abu Eid, a political scientist and former adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization, said that despite widespread criticism against the Israeli government’s plan to seize Gaza City, there will not be any meaningful change as long as countries do not impose sanctions on Israel.

“As long as we don’t hear the word sanctions from main Western powers, things are not going to change,” Abu Eid told Al Jazeera.

“The Israeli government has been announcing every single step of this genocide, starting with their announcement that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza. They said they will cut water. They cut water. They said they will cut food. They cut food. They said they were going to bomb, and they bombed. Now they are saying that they are going to ethnically cleanse Gaza City,” he said.

According to Abu Eid, Netanyahu’s plan is not about defeating Hamas but to ethnically cleanse the enclave’s northern city because the prime minister “thinks that he’s in a position whereby he can dictate not just the future of Israel, but the future of the whole region”.

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Post from Al Jazeera on August 09, 2025

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