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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zaheena Rasheed

Lapid, Olmert slam Israel’s plans for ‘concentration camps’ in Gaza’s Rafah

Only rubble remains of houses destroyed in Israeli offensives in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 13, 2025 [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

Two prominent Israeli politicians have criticised plans by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set up what it calls a “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza, saying the proposal would amount to interning Palestinians in a “concentration camp”.

Former Prime Ministers Yair Lapid and Ehud Olmert levelled the criticism on Sunday as Israeli forces continued to bombard Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians over the course of the day.

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