Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israel was carrying out a "deliberate" policy of "ethnic cleansing" through the forcible and permanent displacement of virtually the entire population of Gaza.

Israel has overseen the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza in a deliberate and systematic campaign that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of war crimes in a sprawling new report that argues the Israeli military has forcibly displaced the Palestinian people in Gaza during the 13-month war against Hamas.