Question for you or anyone else: are the Geneva Conventions officially a thing of the past for the USA? I am no fan of the Palestinians, as they brought their destruction upon themselves, but moving the entire population out never to come back is a pretty clear cut violation of Article 49. I always thought the US tried to abide by that post WW2, but it looks like its merely a suggestion nowdays.
Article 49 - Deportations, transfers, evacuations
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.
Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.
