nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/1cd07c86a1c7eea4 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250813s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.59704/1cd07c86a1c7eea4 doi ger 342 23 Mann, Itamar Author aut “Occupation” as Euphemism Mann, Itamar Verfassungsblog 2025-08-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 10 August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gathered a press conference to explain an earlier cabinet decision “to occupy” Gaza. What he introduced, to the dismay of allied governments in Europe, was a military incursion on Gaza City and “the central camps and Mawasi.” Netanyahu promised a “non-Israeli civilian administration” and, in English, adjusted the earlier framing of the operation, which had by then been embraced and echoed in Israeli media: that plan is “not to occupy Gaza, but to free it.” Such rhetoric invites scrutiny – not only for the legal ramifications of the acts announced, but it also calls into attention the shifting uses of the word occupation in Israeli political discourse. CC BY-SA 4.0 Israel-Gaza War Israel-Hamas War occupation Occupied Territory Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/occupation-as-euphemism/ raw object