>Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to initially house about 600,000 Palestinians – and eventually the whole 2.1 million population.
>He said the goal was to bring people inside after security screening to ensure they were not Hamas operatives, **and that they would not be allowed to leave.**
Seems bad, also is contradicted later in the article
>Netanyahu said: “I think President Trump has a brilliant vision. It’s called free choice. If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave…
Don’t exactly trust Bibi
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Even if we consider this Israeli government in good faith, the plan has all the elements to go disastrously wrong:
* moving the entire Gaza population in an area that’s a fraction of the original is going to be challenging from a logistical pov. AFAIK the area in question doesn’t have the facilities to host 1.5M+ people.
* aid distribution is still facing challenges, with hundreds killed since the programme started.
* not clear if people will be allowed to leave and to where. If they can only leave if they move to another country it’s ethnic cleansing and should be condemned.
* not clear how this helps bringing the hostages home which is the stated goal of the war.
Overall we’re so close to something horrible happening that western governments should do anything they can to stop it.
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>Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to initially house about 600,000 Palestinians – and eventually the whole 2.1 million population.
>He said the goal was to bring people inside after security screening to ensure they were not Hamas operatives, **and that they would not be allowed to leave.**
Seems bad, also is contradicted later in the article
>Netanyahu said: “I think President Trump has a brilliant vision. It’s called free choice. If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave…
Don’t exactly trust Bibi
Even if we consider this Israeli government in good faith, the plan has all the elements to go disastrously wrong:
* moving the entire Gaza population in an area that’s a fraction of the original is going to be challenging from a logistical pov. AFAIK the area in question doesn’t have the facilities to host 1.5M+ people.
* aid distribution is still facing challenges, with hundreds killed since the programme started.
* not clear if people will be allowed to leave and to where. If they can only leave if they move to another country it’s ethnic cleansing and should be condemned.
* not clear how this helps bringing the hostages home which is the stated goal of the war.
Overall we’re so close to something horrible happening that western governments should do anything they can to stop it.