US EditionFormer Israeli PM Ehud Olmert calls Katz's humanitarian city plan a 'concentration camp'
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 14 – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls the plan to confine 600,000 Palestinians in a camp on Rafah's ruins a form of ethnic cleansing and a war crime under international law.
- Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir presented a plan to build a humanitarian city in southern Gaza, which was met with resistance from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who rejected the proposed timeline.
- The humanitarian city in Rafah aims to relocate about 600,000 Palestinians and may eventually accommodate the entire Gaza population, as announced by Defense Minister Israel Katz.
- Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticized the plan, stating it could be viewed as ethnic cleansing if Palestinians are forcibly moved, labeling the initiative as akin to a concentration camp.
- Olmert also stated that the establishment of such a camp would be a serious escalation and described current actions in Gaza and the West Bank as war crimes.
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