In an interview with Press TV on Saturday, Scott Rickard, a former American intelligence linguist, said the Tel Aviv regime seeks to wipe the entire Palestine of its native inhabitants.
"They're basically trying to wipe out the entire Gaza infrastructure and reoccupy Gaza," the analyst added."This is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine," Rickard said, adding that Israel's crimes against Palestinians amount to "war crimes."
He also lashed out at the Egyptian government for helping the Israeli regime with its crimes against Palestinians by keeping the Rafah border crossing closed.
The Rafah border crossing is the only escape route from Gaza that does not lead into Israel. It can be used for the delivery of food and medical stuff to Gaza.
"It's horrific to see them (Egyptians) abusing their power of the border crossing and not allowing humanitarian aid to go in and help these defenseless individuals who are just being slaughtered on daily basis," Rickard said.
The death toll from 19 days of Israel's war on Gaza has surpassed 1,000 while more than 6,000 others have been injured.
According to the UN, over 80 percent of the Palestinian fatalities have been civilians, including more than 200 children.
Israel has also confirmed that 37 Israelis have been killed in the war but the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas puts the number at about 90.
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for a long time. Attack after attack, year after year I thought it was israel's intention to murder every single palestinian alive. But they won't. They need them as enemies to have their weapons tested (israel/palestine is a military test ground). Everything utterly despicable and inhuman happens there first before anyone else picks it up (particularly the US). Lately it is kiev that is using incendiary bombs and nobody says anything. Why? Because they didn't object or act when israel used these illegal weapons (now and a few years ago, truly horrific). Here is my theory. The "operation" will go on an will intensify and so will the bombing in east-ukraine more or less as a cover. We live in interesting times. The outcome will be this: violence and bullying won't get you the same results as before. I truly feel with the palestinians and have for a very long time. Justice just does not seems to exist for these people. It's a good thing this too will change.