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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Tel Aviv

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

Ehud Olmert during an interview with The Guardian: he holds his hands up in an animated gesture. He is nearly 80, bald, and wears a black top; he sits in front of a shelf with photographs and an ornamental plate.
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

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.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation.

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