Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sats the so-called “humanitarian city” that the Israeli government wants to build on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, Al Jazeera reports.

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” he told the Guardian newspaper.

“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,” Olmert said.

“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,” he added.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. — Reuters
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. — Reuters

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