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

[Allan]

The camp is only the first step. Israel's Defence Minister has made it clear that emigration would follow.

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.

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

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

www.theguardian.com

 

[iliveonramen]

"Humanitarian City" is just such obvious double speak.

When I was younger reading history, I would see obvious double speak and names like "The Cultural Revolution" that were just grand titles for police state actions. I always thought that was something that may work pre-internet before people had access to information.

One thing that's become really obvious, it still works.

 

[Felis Leo]

The camp is only the first step. Israel's Defence Minister has made it clear that emigration would follow.

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

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

www.theguardian.com

It raises the uncomfortable question: Why is a "humanitarian" city necessary? Is that not an admission by Israel that the conditions they have imposed on the Palestinians of Gaza are inhumane?