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Ex-Israeli PM calls Gaza 'humanitarian city' a concentration camp
14 July 2025 09:19 BST
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has condemned the government’s proposed “humanitarian city” in Rafah, calling it a concentration camp and warning it could amount to ethnic cleansing.
“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” Olmert told The Guardian.
“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,” he added.
Olmert went on to say that building a camp designed to remove over half of Gaza’s population cannot be understood as a humanitarian measure.
“There is no other understanding that I have at least,” he said. “It is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away.”