Former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, compared this “Humanitarian City” project this Sunday, July 13 in Gaza with a “concentration camp.” A comparison also made by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
The Minister of Defense of the Hebrew State, Israel Katz, presented on July 7, presented a plan that provides the establishment, in case of a truce, of a “humanitarian city”, a closed area in southern Gaza in Rafah, which would first welcome some 600,000 displaced and finally, the entire civilian population.
“It is part of an ethnic cleaning”
If the Palestinians “moved to the new ‘Humanitarian City’, it can be said that it is part of an ethnic cleaning,” said Ehud Olmert, cited by The Guardian.
“When they build a camp where they plan to ‘clean’ more than half of the Gaza Strip, it is inevitable to understand that this strategy does not intend to save the Palestinians. It is a matter of deporting, pushing and throwing them,” he insists on the former head of government.
Questioned by the American media, the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to the criticism of Ehud Olmert, calling him “criminal convicted that dishonor Israel”, in CNN. “We evacuate civilians. Hamas blocks them. He calls him a war crime?”
Ehud Olmert was a little more than three years, from January 2006 to March 2009, just before adherence to the power of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Source: BFM TV
