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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nicola Slawson

First Thing: ‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Ehud Olmert gestures as he speaks
Olmert said Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, and constructing the camp would mark an escalation. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Good morning.

The “humanitarian city” Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

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