Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza's population 'a blueprint for crimes against humanity'
Source: Guardian
Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme which legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.
Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah, Haaretz newspaper reported.
Palestinians would go through “security screening” before entering, and once inside would not be allowed to leave, Katz said at a briefing for Israeli journalists.
Israeli forces would control the perimeter of the site and initially “move” 600,000 Palestinians into the area, Katz said, mostly people currently displaced in the al-Mawasi area.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah
Katz told the journalists that they intend to eventually move the entire population of Gaza there, and then an emigration plan '"will happen."
The article quotes Michael Sfard, described as one of Israel's leading human rights lawyers, who said this is "nothing less than" a crime against humanity.
Hosts, please note - this is not the same news story as a Reuters exclusive about a proposal for re-education camps an American group offered the Trump administration, which I posted earlier: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143492494 . This is from the Israeli government.
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You're right. Anyone who defends this has no heart. I suspect though, no one, at least here, would come out to defend it. It would be a bad look for a Democrat indeed.
However defending and excusing the slaughter and destruction of schools and hospitals and all infrastructure for 21 months? Against all legal, international and ethical laws and norms? That denialist propaganda is what allowed and enabled Israel to carry out and complete the destruction. Pure complicity in the end game determined 21 months ago.
No one should be able to say they didn't know about the end game. The evidence, like the smoke rising from Auschwitz for all the "Good Germans" to see, was there all along.
actually 
to melt his artificial brains..... or at least provoke an answer so long
that few of us would be likely to read it to the end...
(I thought GROK was a pretty good A.I. chat-bot, and have used it--
at least before the "last" update
which gave it "permission" to give 'politically incorrect' responses...)
I think his logic on this question would be torn against his latest instructions,
which seem to encourage any anti-semitic responses---
'Politically incorrect', 'but based upon fact' per his new instructions....
(Ought to put a computer brain into quite an A.I. quagmire---
I might ask some questions myself!)
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