Former Israeli guide calls Gaza's humanitarian city concentration camp

Former Israeli guide calls Gaza's humanitarian city concentration camp

Jerusalem-former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that a planned “humanitarian city” in the Gaza strip, which is supposed to accommodate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, would actually act as a “concentration camp”.

planned humanitarian city

The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said last week that he had instructed the military leadership to drive the plans for this zone, which would ultimately include the entire population of Gaza. The area is to be built on the ruins of the city of Rafah in southern Gazas. Once within this zone, the Palestinians would not be allowed to leave. Katz also promised to realize a plan to emigrate the Palestinians from Gaza.

critical voices from Israel

"It's a concentration camp. I'm sorry," Olmert told the Guardian on Sunday. “If you (the Palestinians) are deported to the new‘ Humanitarian City ’, you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleaning.”

olmert's concerns about the Israeli military leadership

CNN asked the prime minister's office for a statement. In the past, Olmert has sharply criticized the behavior of the Israeli military in Gaza and the political leadership of the country. In May he said that he could no longer defend Israel against accusations of war crimes. "What is it if not a war crime?" He asked rhetorically in an interview with CNN and accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and right members of his government to "commit actions that do not allow any other interpretation."

tragic losses in Gaza

Since the beginning of the war, more than 58,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war. Olmert's most recent statements in which he sharply criticizes the intentions of Israel in Gaza, but go far beyond earlier statements, especially since comparisons with the concentration camps of the National Socialists in Israel are considered almost unthinkable.

planning and reactions

"If you build a camp in which you want to" clean "more than half, then the inevitable understanding of this strategy is not about saving the Palestinians. It is about deporting them, pushing and throwing them away," Olmert told Guardian.

Katz ’plans for the so -called“ humanitarian city ”were discussed during a meeting with Netanyahu on Sunday evening. According to reports of Israeli news agencies about the enormous costs and the long construction period, Netanyahu made it clear to make the foundation more cost -effective and faster.

opposition criticizes the policy of the government

Yair Lapid, the chairman of the Israeli opposition, criticized the plans as an attempt by Netanyahu to allow his right -wing coalition partners to “become wild” with extreme fantasies to get his coalition. In a In social media Lapid called for "ending the war and bringing the hostages back".

human rights activists express themselves

The Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard told CNN that Katz ’plan is equivalent to a forced resettlement of a population that is being prepared for deportation. Sfard added both scenarios as war crimes. "If they are carried out on a large scale - entire communities - they could even be seen as a crime against humanity," he said, rejected the idea that every exit from Gaza could be considered voluntary.