{"id":20236,"date":"2025-07-14T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=20236"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:37:36","slug":"israels-humanitarian-city-plan-in-rafah-condemned-as-a-mass-detention-scheme-by-opposition-leader-lapid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/07\/14\/israels-humanitarian-city-plan-in-rafah-condemned-as-a-mass-detention-scheme-by-opposition-leader-lapid\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s &#8220;Humanitarian City&#8221; Plan in Rafah Condemned as a Mass Detention Scheme by Opposition Leader Lapid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday slammed the controversial \u201chumanitarian city\u201d plan being promoted by the Israeli government to be built on the ruins of Rafah, southern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1246\">According to Israel\u2019s Army Radio, Lapid described the proposal as a \u201cbad idea from every perspective \u2014 security, political, economic, and logistical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1260\">He stated:\u201cThe Israeli army loudly opposes this plan. It\u2019s an attempt to create a process that would ultimately leave Israel trapped in Gaza with no way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1421\" data-end=\"1488\">Lapid sharply criticized the inherent contradictions in the plan:\u201cIf you prevent [the Palestinians] from leaving the city, it\u2019s a detention camp. If they\u2019re allowed to leave, then there is no humanitarian city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1680\">He added, expressing disbelief:\u201cHow do they even plan to implement this? There would be 600,000 people surrounded by fences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1783\" data-end=\"1987\">The proposal was revealed Monday by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who outlined the creation of a so-called \u201chumanitarian city\u201d made up of tents built atop the destroyed city of Rafah.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20232\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5660-1.jpg\" alt=\"According to Israel\u2019s Army Radio, Lapid described the proposal as a \u201cbad idea from every perspective \u2014 security, political, economic, and logistical.\u201d\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5660-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5660-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5660-1-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli army Targets included refugee tents, water trucks, and civilians waiting for American-Israeli humanitarian aid,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2241\">In its initial phase, the plan would involve relocating 600,000 Palestinians to the fenced compound after undergoing strict security screening. Once inside, they would not be allowed to return to the areas they were forcibly displaced from.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2243\" data-end=\"2422\">Critics have likened the proposed \u201chumanitarian city\u201d to a ghetto or detention camp, drawing chilling parallels to Jewish internment camps during World War II (1939\u20131945).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2618\">On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a warning against the plan, saying it amounts to a strategy of forced displacement disguised under humanitarian pretenses. \u201cThis so-called humanitarian city has nothing to do with humanity,\u201d the ministry stated, pointing out it has been heavily criticized by the international community and even within Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2818\" data-end=\"3152\">According to Israel\u2019s Kan public broadcaster, the planned city is to be built between the Philadelphi Corridor and Morag in southern Gaza. The intention is to concentrate all Gazan civilians in one fenced area, after which mechanisms would be introduced to encourage what Israel calls \u201cvoluntary emigration\u201d from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3154\" data-end=\"3457\">This plan emerges as part of what many experts and human rights groups have labeled a genocidal war on Gaza by Israel, supported by the United States, which began on October 7, 2023. The war has involved mass killings, starvation, total destruction of neighborhoods, and forced displacement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20197\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20197 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Critics call the proposed \u201chumanitarian compound\u201d a modern-day ghetto aimed at ethnic cleansing under the guise of aid and security.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/990.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel plans a $4B tent city in Rafah to confine 500,000 Palestinians. Critics say it&#8217;s forced displacement masked as humanitarian relief.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"3459\" data-end=\"3795\">To date, this campaign has resulted in over 196,000 Palestinian casualties, including the dead and wounded, the majority being women and children, alongside more than 11,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and widespread famine that has already claimed the lives of many \u2014 including dozens of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday slammed the controversial \u201chumanitarian city\u201d plan being promoted by the Israeli government to be built on the ruins of Rafah, southern Gaza. According to Israel\u2019s Army Radio, Lapid described the proposal as a \u201cbad idea from every perspective \u2014 security, political, economic, and logistical.\u201d He stated:\u201cThe Israeli army &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6508,875,3048],"class_list":["post-20236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-humanitarian-city-plan","tag-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza","tag-yair-lapid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Israel\u2019s &quot;Humanitarian City&quot; Plan in Rafah Condemned as a Mass Detention Scheme by Opposition Leader Lapid - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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