Israel’s plan to build Gaza ‘concentration camps’ was rolled out months ago – Mondoweiss

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the Israeli army to prepare a plan to forcibly relocate 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza to Rafah, as a first step towards later “concentrating” all of Gaza’s 2 million people in the southern Gaza governorate.

In a briefing to journalists on Monday, July 7, Katz said the plan is to build a “humanitarian city” on Rafah’s ruins, which has been all but flattened in recent months. According to Katz, Palestinians would be…