Emma Graham-Harrison – The Guardian July 7, 2025
Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.
Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah, Haaretz newspaper reported.
Palestinians would go through “security screening” before entering, and once inside would not be allowed to leave, Katz said at a briefing for Israeli journalists.
Israeli forces would control the perimeter of the site and initially “move” 600,000 Palestinians into the area – mostly people currently displaced in the al-Mawasi area.
Eventually the entire population of Gaza would be housed there, and Israel aims to implement “the emigration plan, which will happen”, Haaretz quoted him saying.
Since Donald Trump suggested at the start of the year that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “clean out” the strip, Israeli politicians including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have enthusiastically promoted forced deportation, often presenting it as a US project.
Katz’s scheme breaks international law, said Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers. It also directly contradicted claims made hours earlier by the office of Israel’s military chief, which said in a letter that Palestinians were only displaced inside Gaza for their own protection.
“(Katz) laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity. It is nothing less than that,” Sfard said. “It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip.
“While the government still calls the deportation ‘voluntary’, people in Gaza are under so many coercive measures that no departure from the strip can be seen in legal terms as consensual.
“When you drive someone out of their homeland that would be a war crime, in the context of a war. If it’s done on a massive scale like he plans, it becomes a crime against humanity,” Sfard added.
Katz laid out his plans for Gaza shortly before Netanyahu arrived in Washington DC for meetings with Donald Trump, where he will be under heavy pressure to agree a ceasefire deal to end or at least pause the 21-month war.
Work on the “humanitarian city” at the heart of Katz’s plans could start during a ceasefire, the defence minister said. Netanyahu is leading efforts to find countries willing to “take in” Palestinians, he added.
Speaking from the White House on Monday, Netanyahu said the US and Israel were working with other countries who would give Palestinians a “better future.”
“If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave,” Netanyahu said, as he prepared to have dinner with Trump.
Israeli politicians including the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, have also been enthusiastic advocates of new Israeli settlements in Gaza.
Plans for the construction of camps called “humanitarian transit areas”, to house Palestinians inside and possibly outside Gaza, had previously been presented to the Trump administration and discussed in the White House, Reuters reported on Monday.
The $2bn plan bore the name of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Reuters said. GHF denied it had submitted a proposal and said slides seen by Reuters, which laid out the plan, “are not a GHF document”.
Concerns about Israel’s plans to displace Palestinians had previously been raised by military orders for the operation launched this spring.
Sfard represented three reservists who filed a petition to Israel’s courts, demanding the military revoke commands to “mobilise and concentrate” the civilian population of Gaza, and to prohibit any plans for the deportation of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.
In a letter responding to their claims, the office of Israel’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said that displacing Palestinians or concentrating the population in one part of Gaza were not among the objectives of the operation.
That statement was directly contradicted by Katz, said Prof Amos Goldberg, historian of the Holocaust at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The defence minister laid out clear plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Goldberg said, and the creation of “a concentration camp or a transit camp for Palestinians before they expel them”.
“It is neither humanitarian nor a city,” he said of Katz’s planned holding area for Palestinians.
“A city is a place where you have possibilities of work, of earning money, of making connections and freedom of movement.
“There are hospitals, schools, universities and offices. This is not what they have in mind. It will not be a livable place, just as the ‘safe areas’ are unliveable now.”
Katz’s plan also raised the immediate question of what would happen to Palestinians who refused to follow Israeli orders to move into the new compound, said Goldberg.
He added: “What will happen if the Palestinians will not accept this solution and revolt, because they are not completely helpless?”
Only people that should be put into a camp should be all Kikes and a few mustard bombs into it would sort out the world’s biggest problem. Tod dem Juden.
Cazzo’s extermination city.
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has had to delete “inappropriate” pro-Hitler and anti-Jewish comments about “people with that kind of name” made by its AI which called itself MechaHitler.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-ai-firm-forced-delete-031718077.html
Yep the guy that’s banned on here revealed the scheme a day or two after the IDF-Mossad Oct 7 false flag:
“An agreement/arrangement was made between the Israelis & Palestinians. We will give you new prosperous lives in the West in exchange for evacuating Gaza, so we can demolish these slums & construct new developments. This couldn’t have been achieved diplomatically because the Palestinians would look bad i.e., simply exchanging their ‘precious land’ for money & a better life in the West managing mini Marts, gas stations & ‘grooming gangs’. Ergo, the phony hoax ‘war’ & ‘genocide’ now going on to cover up the devious transfer scheme & generate more wog pity from mush brained whites.”
Looks like he’s being proven right again.
This site used to report on a range of interesting topics,but since the Pandemic it is nothing but wars and Israel. Isn’t there anything else going on in the world? All these samey articles are totally boring.
@cassie clark
Whether the Jews have been hamming it up with Hamas and the destruction of all of the old real-estate is “controlled demolition” like they did in 9/11, is hard to discern because all of the information from Gaza appears filtered. Yet, how could they have so many Palestinians play acting for such a deal for mammon from the Jews. There are millions of them who have no intention of leaving their homeland, and those in places like Gaza have been caged in like rats for decades. Secondly, the alleged genocide is most likely all very true, because even if it was another Israeli hoax, the adverse fallout from it on the world stage not just to Zionist Jews but to the entire tribe, will now never be lived down. They will now experience the same guilt trip and isolation they inflicted on the Nazis and all of the German people, because they clearly no longer are in control of the media. No, they are engaged in a huge ethnic cleansing operation regrading anything “Arab” and non-Jewish in the territories, and with the fall of Syria more of the Arab population will be suppressed. They have absolutely no qualms in exterminating their foes. All of their propaganda from the cradle is that is what the goyim world has done to them, and so with characteristic ruthlessness they feel justified in using whatever ruthless means at their disposal to get rid of any opposition anywhere and any time they want.
@CLU
specialy the warmongering jew mediawhores
dirigating the stupid goyim to selfdestruction .
notice author of subheading omits the Soviet -Russian gulags in his comparison with the Israeli camps, but mentions the English & Nazi camps…
Does it require “legal experts and academics to call things by their real names?
Anti-commie and everyone else come to that, have you never noticed that the jew run murder camps in the ussr are NEVER ever mentioned anywhere, not even on here, not even as stalins gulags. They just didn’t exist and millions of white folk certainly weren’t starved, tortured and butchered in those non – existant camps. So what can you be thinking? Must be a conspiracy theorist!
All this talk about internment camps in one country or another, yet no mention of the German camps for jews, aka the holocaust.
That slogan the jews put up everywhere, “Never again,” must mean it’ll never be done to them again because they’ll do it to everybody else first.
They are the most evil people on earth.
grimsson
right…that’s because all these alt news sites are managed by Yids, Russophiles or Commies.