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highplainsdem

(57,306 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 05:02 PM Sunday

'Humanitarian city' would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Source: Guardian

The “humanitarian city” Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation.

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” he said, when asked about the plans laid out by Israel Katz last week. Once inside, Palestinians would not be allowed to leave, except to go to other countries, Katz said.

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“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said. That would be “the inevitable interpretation” of any attempt to create a camp for hundreds of thousands of people, he said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert

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'Humanitarian city' would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM (Original Post) highplainsdem Sunday OP
a smaller open air prison lapfog_1 Sunday #1
Except even worse, by far. AloeVera Sunday #3
This message was self-deleted by its author lapfog_1 Sunday #2
Glad to see him denounce it. iemanja Sunday #4
Me too. He started speaking out a few months ago about war crimes... AloeVera Sunday #5
He should be careful. Israeli settlers are among the most vicious terrorists on the planet. Jit423 Sunday #6
Vicious terrorists is right. AloeVera Sunday #7
Olmert is right. thought crime Monday #9
It's shocking, isn't it? AloeVera Monday #10
I didn't think I could be more disgusted than the building of concentration camps in the US BlueSpot Sunday #8

AloeVera

(3,242 posts)
3. Except even worse, by far.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 06:02 PM
Sunday

No brick-and-mortar homes, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, no businesses, commerce, agriculture, fishing, no communities.

It's a concentration camp, not fit for sustained human life.

This is where genocide denial leads to and where it MUST now end.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

AloeVera

(3,242 posts)
5. Me too. He started speaking out a few months ago about war crimes...
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 07:42 PM
Sunday

We need many, many more voices, in Israel and the diaspora. Due to the cowardice and self-interest of our Western "leaders", it seems to me that only the Jewish people themselves can put a stop to this.

Jit423

(1,564 posts)
6. He should be careful. Israeli settlers are among the most vicious terrorists on the planet.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:42 PM
Sunday

it wouldn't be the first time these hateful people killed one of their peace advocates. I remember Rabin.

AloeVera

(3,242 posts)
7. Vicious terrorists is right.
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 10:11 PM
Sunday

They terrorize not just the Palestinians but their own too. People literally are too scared to speak out. Olmert has a lot of courage, hope it's contagious.

thought crime

(488 posts)
9. Olmert is right.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 04:22 PM
Monday

Seeing what is happening every day in Gaza, how can the world continue to stand by and watch Israel take yet another step in its obvious campaign of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment? And western media should be giving more attention to Jews who do participate in Pro-Palestinian protests.

AloeVera

(3,242 posts)
10. It's shocking, isn't it?
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:19 PM
Monday

It's masks off for our Western, democratic "civilization". We talk a good talk, but...

Our rhetoric doesn't match our behaviours. It's noted by the people of the Global South, China etc. Next time we preach to them about "human rights" and "equality" blah blah they will remind us of our hypocrisy. We've lost whatever moral authority we still had.

The press should be giving more attention to Palestinian voices too. It owes it to them, the press carried the IDF and Israel's water, far beyond when they should have known better. Yes, opposing Jewish voices too, and of course would carry more weight.

BlueSpot

(1,111 posts)
8. I didn't think I could be more disgusted than the building of concentration camps in the US
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 11:10 PM
Sunday

But now in/by Israel?

I just don't know what even to say.

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