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.
Update from Gaza.
A child arrives at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital with critical injuries and takes his final breath before your eyes, after an Israeli strike targeted a gathering of civilians near Al-Hurriya School in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
Update from Gaza.
Shelling of a gathering of citizens near the Freedom School in the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City
Jewish squatters attack ambulances in the West Bank.
Jewish squatters assault on an ambulance vehicle during an attack on the town of Singel north of Ramallah
Jewish squatters continues attack on West Bank Palestinian villages
The Israeli army is preventing residents from repairing the water line and the street destroyed by Jewish rats between the towns of Majdal Bani Fadil and Aqraba, southeast of Nablus, which caused water outages in a number of villages in the area.
American Mercenaries hunt hungry Palestinians and shoot them dead.
⚡️Paid American mercenaries open fire on Palestinians waiting in line for food. Unarmed. Hungry.
Just trying to survive.
One of them shouts: “I think I hit one!” Another yells back:“Hell yeah, boys!”
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