Mera Aladam – Middle East Eye July 9, 2025
Haaretz has reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a plan to confine Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to a so-called “humanitarian city” in Rafah, a plan critics have compared to a concentration camp.
Under the proposal, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be admitted into the camp after undergoing security screening. Once inside, they would be offered food and healthcare, but would not be permitted to leave.
“Give them Ben & Jerry’s, for all I care,” Netanyahu has said, a source told Haaretz.
According to the Israeli daily, Netanyahu does not rule out the possibility of Israel running the site in the short term.
Another senior political official said that a governing system in Gaza “will be responsible for life there,” but that “maybe for the time being, it will be us’.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz told journalists on Monday that the plan would initially involve ejecting 600,000 displaced Palestinians from the al-Mawasi area to the ruins of the southern city of Rafah.
According to the source speaking to Haaretz, by separating civilians from Palestinian fighters, the latter would thus be assumed to remain in the northern part of the blockaded strip.
Katz envisages that the entire civilian population of Gaza, over two million people, would eventually be confined into this new “city”.
He said that the new city would be built, if conditions permit, during a proposed 60-day pause in the war currently being negotiated by Israel and Hamas. It will include the establishment of four aid distribution centres within the area.
The defence minister said that the Israeli military would secure the perimeter of the site, but would not run it. He said Israel was seeking international partners to manage the site, but did not elaborate on who they were.
The proposal has been condemned by rights groups and activists, who have likened it to a concentration camp.
Arab and US funding
The source speaking to Haaretz said that while Netanyahu did not detail the plan’s mechanism, they believe the zone will be under Israeli security control, possibly managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) or local Gazan bodies under Israeli oversight.
The source said Israel may not fund the project but will facilitate the import of tents, construction, and setup.
It will also assist with ongoing maintenance, while core responsibility is expected to lie with local bodies or a willing American, Arab, or Emirati company.
News of the transfer proposal came as Reuters reported that the US and Israel-backed GHF had proposed creating camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” in the Gaza Strip to house Palestinians and “deradicalise” them.
It’s not clear if these “humanitarian transit areas” are the same as the “humanitarian city” announced by Katz.
In a statement sent to Middle East Eye, GHF said it was “not planning for or implementing Humanitarian Transit Areas now or at any point in the future” and said Reuters’ original report was “false”.
Transfer out of Gaza
The Israeli official speaking to Haaretz added that if the army eliminates Hamas from northern Gaza, residents will be relocated to the south, with the option to emigrate. He added that some countries have shown willingness to accept Palestinians, though the plan remains undeveloped.
“Israel is working on this,” he said, noting that population displacement was central to talks between Israel and the US ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week.
A separate source familiar with discussions involving Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Dermer made two key demands. The main one was to keep the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza on the agenda.
The second was to avoid US pressure on Israel over truce negotiations with Hamas, including demands to exile senior Hamas members, demilitarise the group, and remove it from governance in Gaza. The source said US officials likely accepted these requests.
Plans to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians have been condemned by international rights groups as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
What is this about?? All of Palestine has been a concentration camp for the indigenous Palestinian people since 1948 when jews were allowed to overrun the country.
Hey Mileowski !
How about the rest of humanity give you & your tribe Kergullen Islands
& Dry bread a water. You horrible bastard.
That dwarf Frog. minuscule MICRON might even lay on some Frogs legs & snails for desert…
You’re all ‘mates’ after-all.
LOL
They should just feed them ‘Benny’, medium rare on a silver platter with an apple in his mouth..
NB: what’s interesting about this little quip, is that the surviving Ben or Gerry or whatever imbecile now creates the sugary slop has been very vocal about his pro palestine position…and being a jewe himself has committed the greatest crime a jewe can commit..
betraying the tribe.. it also gives an insight into what passes for nuttyahoods..mind…who when alone probably gibbers to himself seated facing into the corner..head in hands..
I’d certainly like to see his list of ‘medications’….
Here’s an interesting book available as a pdf. 90 pages. 7.0Mb. ‘Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany’ by Faris Yahya 1978 (Born Jerusalem 1939)
https://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zionist-Relations-with-Nazi-Germany-Faris-Yahya-PSR-Beirut-1978.pdf
Article states: ‘residents will be relocated to the south, with the option to emigrate…some countries have shown willingness to accept Palestinians.” Don’t worry about it, they’ll soon be in England or Germany or America.
Yep that guy that’s banned on here called it the day or two after the IDF-Mossad Oct 7 blackop/hoax:
“An agreement/arrangement was made between the Israelis & Palestinians. We will give you new prosperous lives in the West in exchange for evacuating the Gaza real estate; 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 the devious transfer scheme & generate more wog pity from mush brained whites.”
Amazing call, & nobody offered him a columnist post on on here or on any other alt news site.
“Give them Ben & Jerry’s, for all I care,” Netanyahu has said, a source told Haaretz.
The pallies have no shortage of ice creams and cakes and sweets….4real………i wanna go over the Gaza wall,i gotta go over the Gaza wall…..
‘I don’t understand this thing at all
It’s third rate B-Movie show
Cheap dialogue, cheap essential scenery’,https://genius.com/Sex-pistols-holidays-in-the-sun-lyrics.
Yes, BiBi, “Give them Ben & Jerry’s”, orperhaps you should have said, “Let them eat cake”.
Rafah is on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is only 23 square miles and there are some 2 million Palestinians to be cleared from the rest of the Gaza Strip and crowded into that space? The Strip, is 141 square miles with a population density of about 14,000 people per square mile – similar to that of London, England. So the generous Israelis want to squeeze those they hate and want to exterminate into a space about 1/7 the size of their already crowded homeland. With the pretext of saving the lives of Palestinians from their own persecution they are building a giant prison compound, and no doubt with the overcrowded conditions they will allow the Palestinians to “escape” into the Sinai Desert, which with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream or cake the Israelis will rename the Sinai Dessert.
The Gaza Strip is only about 25 miles long and 6 miles wide. The only thing which really stopped the IDF from exterminating every Palestinian and completely bulldozing the place was public opinion. In fact, they have to keep Hamas alive and a threat as a pretext to keep their IDF land clearances continuing, just like they needed the cooperation of Hamas for the October 7 attack.
this Nutjobyahu thing looks like a Morlock from the 1960 movie ‘The Time Machine’
europeans need deported Hamas wariors to
help us to eleminate our own traitors ! they
know best to smuggle arms across frontiers .
it will also be new income for the Camorra
not depending only on drug + childorgans trade .
@white messiah
morlock…yeah new term for these jews ..imagine if everybody started terming these jews ‘morlocks’ (the 1960 morlocks) –that would really piss of these vermin