Hadi Borhani, in an interview with the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations website about the Zionist regime’s move to try two military officials on the pretext of violating human rights, stated: The Israeli regime’s goals in continuing the war in Gaza are clear: ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Abundant evidence confirms the pursuit of these goals, and the public positions of the Israeli regime officials also state that they want to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. Still, because this action has negative consequences and outcomes for the Israeli regime in legal organizations and international forums, especially in the field of human rights and public opinion, they are trying to manage this space and move in a way that reduces the negative consequences and outcomes of their actions in Gaza.

The expert on regional issues added: This action by the Israeli regime shows that despite all the propaganda, displays of power and support from the US, public opinion and international judicial and legal authority are still important and effective, and can be relied on to prevent unilateral actions and decisions against violation of human rights.

He continued: The Israeli regime’s attempt to hold a show trial to punish military officials is to send the world a false message that this regime is sensitive to the issue of human rights and other international laws and has the so-called most ethical army in the world, such that if a problem arises and a mistake is made, the Israeli regime itself will investigate it and deal with it, but this is while this action and behavior of the Israeli regime is a deceptive political game.

Regarding the Israeli regime’s attacks on Gaza and the killing of women and children in entirely civilian places, Borhani stated: “In fact, the goal of the Israeli regime is to expel the Palestinians from their land so that it can complete the project of creating a Greater Israel that includes all of Palestine, especially the West Bank. To achieve this dream, it must also carry out ethnic cleansing, because the Palestinians are unwilling to leave their land of their own will and desire, unless they are forced to do so under pressure. One of the methods that the Israeli regime has used for this purpose is the crime and killing of Palestinian women and children.” He said: Once in 1948, nearly 90 percent of the Palestinian people were expelled from their land, and now the Zionists are trying to expel their remains, but because their goal is false wrong and incorrect from the international and public opinion point of view, they do not say it publicly, but they pursue this goal in their behavior and actions, and to justify their actions, they also claim that Hamas forces are hiding in hospitals, schools, and refugee settlements.

The expert on regional issues clarified: The Israeli regime is trying to make the world’s public opinion conclude that the Palestinians themselves are seeking to leave the Palestinian land, and this is a regular occurrence under the influence of war conditions or their own will, so as not to say that the Israeli regime is carrying out ethnic cleansing. They believe that from an internal point of view, the Palestinians should be expelled, and from an international point of view, this issue should be presented as a standard action.

Regarding America’s support for the Israeli regime, he said: “Trump and Biden have supported the actions of the Israeli regime. Similar anti-human rights cases occurred during the Biden era, which his administration supported. When their nature was revealed, they tried to hide or justify it and expel or put on show trials a few of the perpetrators, but their main goal was not to deal with the perpetrators of these crimes, but rather to calm public opinion.”

Borhani, in response to the question of whether the International Court of Justice can operationalize complaints and lawsuits against the Israeli regime for human rights violations, stated: “Although international organizations and courts have limited power, they are influential elements, and their opportunity should be used to confront the crimes of the Israeli regime.”