A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.

Israel's plan to build what it calls a “humanitarian city” for Palestinians in southern Gaza reportedly fell through amid army opposition.

Plans to force Palestinians into a “humanitarian city” in Gaza would be akin to a concentration camp, a former Israeli prime minister has said. Ehud Olmert claimed construction of the camp would mark an escalation in the conflict and that he now considers Israel to be committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.