The ‘humanitarian city’ in southern Gaza
'They will live under harsh conditions of heat and dust and later rain and mud in abject poverty, substandard health and sanitary conditions, squalor and malnutrition'
Israel’s controversial plan for a “humanitarian city” in Gaza is a laundered name for a “Transit Gateway to Eviction”.
The vast tent encampment would be built on the ruins of Rafah, south of the Morag Corridor in the southern part of the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, and will cost the Israeli taxpayer between US $2.7 billion (A $4.1 billion) and US $4 billion (A $6 billion).
It would be managed by undisclosed international organisations and secured by undisclosed military or paramilitary forces in which the IDF will play a secondary role.
The tent city will temporarily house 600,000 displaced Gazans currently sheltering in the Mawasi coastal area, and could eventually become a transit station for the eviction of the territory’s entire two million inhabitants.
Hamas operatives and their accomplices will not be allowed into the closed zone, supplied with water and food, which essentially becomes a waiting station for a one-way exit, which Israeli authorities again euphemistically call “voluntary emigration”’, to countries willing to take in Gaza’s new refugees.
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