Ehud Olmert has condemned Israel’s proposed initiative to relocate Palestinians within Gaza into what officials have referred to as a “humanitarian city,” asserting that the project mirrors the characteristics of a concentration camp.
“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” Olmert stated during an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, as he addressed the controversial plan introduced by Defense Minister Yisroel Katz last week.
Olmert warned that if Palestinians are forced to relocate to this newly designated area, the move could rightfully be labeled as ethnic cleansing. “If [the 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 said, describing such a development as “the inevitable interpretation” of a strategy that involves erecting a facility to hold hundreds of thousands of people.
He further argued that the intent behind such a mass relocation is not humanitarian at all. “When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have, at least,” Olmert said.

{Matzav.com Israel}