by | July 25, 2025
IDF in Rafah, May 2024 (Photo by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia)
Much of the world’s media has chosen to report on Israel’s intention to enlarge the city of Rafah so that it can accommodate another 600,000 Gazans (the total population of Gaza is 2.2 million), as if what was being planned by those endlessly wicked Israelis was an internment camp or, worse still, a “concentration camp.” That is not what is planned, but everyone seems determined to mislead, in order to blacken Israel’s image in the world even more than has already been accomplished. More on this latest example of misreporting can be found here: “Media’s Grotesque Holocaust Dog Whistle: ‘Internment Camp’ Lie Built on Retracted Reuters Claim,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, July 10, 2025:
The Guardian described Israel as having drawn up “plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah,” in an analysis piece by Emma Graham-Harrison, the paper’s newly appointed Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent.
Emma Graham-Harrison, in the far-left and determinedly anti-Israel Guardian, gets the Israeli plan exactly wrong. The Israelis are not building “an internment camp on the ruins of Rafah,” but instead plan to clean the rubble from Rafah, and to build not a camp, but an addition to the city that will be able to accommodate 600,000 more people. Those people will be moving to safer quarters from their current tent cities in Al-Muwasi. There will be no forced “internment.” Anyone who wants to leave will be able to do so. But the Israelis are betting that few will want to turn down the “new and improved and enlarged” city of Rafah, and the humanitarian aid that can more easily and more safely be distributed there, that they are hoping to build.
The BBC reported “plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in Rafah.”
ABC Australia ran a headline referring to the construction of a “large-scale camp,” citing so-called “human rights lawyers” who had denounced the proposal.
How can those “human rights lawyers” denounce a proposal that they clearly do not understand? Israel is not going to construct a “large scale camp,” but will merely be enlarging, after cleaning the rubble from, the city of Rafah. Why not explain that, instead of scaring people with the use of the terms “camps,” “internment camps,” and “ghettos”?
Germany’s DW News presented it as a foregone conclusion: “Israel to confine Gazans in camp near border.”
And the Irish Times went even further, dropping the pretense. A recent op-ed accused Israel of creating “ghettos” for Gazans.
The implication is chillingly clear. The Jewish state, they suggest, is now echoing the crimes once committed against its own people. Israel, the inheritor of Holocaust memory, has become a Nazi regime. The grotesque irony is not lost on the editors who chose these headlines. It is intentional.
And it is also clearly a lie.
The claim that Israel is planning “internment camps” or “ghettos” is not grounded in fact. It stems from a statement by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he had instructed the IDF to prepare a plan to establish a “humanitarian city” in the southern Gaza Strip. At no point – in English or Hebrew – did Katz use the word “camp,” nor did he imply mass internment or forced confinement.
According to Katz, the plan involves relocating approximately 600,000 Palestinians, primarily from the al-Muwasi area, into a new protected zone where humanitarian aid could be safely delivered. Individuals would undergo security screening to prevent Hamas terrorists from embedding themselves among civilians.
Even Haaretz, hardly a defender of the Israeli government, reportedthat the plan is unlikely to move forward due to concerns over its feasibility. There is no finalized proposal. No construction has begun. No orders have been given. It remains a theoretical contingency in a war where Hamas deliberately uses civilians as shields, and aid delivery is perilously complicated….
The media’s casual flirtation with Holocaust inversion is not just offensive. It is factually wrong and morally repugnant. And in an era of rising global antisemitism, it must be called out for what it is – incitement against Jews.
What kind of concentration camp must Gaza be, if 100,000 people have been allowed to leave the Strip, without the slightest hindrance, since the war Hamas started began on October 7, 2023? What kind of “camp” — internment or concentration — provides new housing for its inhabitants? What kind of internment camp has no guards, no barbed wire, no searchlights, no menacing German shepherds, and exists only to provide its inhabitants with safer quarters and easier access to humanitarian aid? The Israelis call what they are intending to construct a “humanitarian city,” yet not a single account in the media has made clear that that is Israel’s intention. Why not?
WELL-Israel does many foolish things. A glaring example is the billions wasted and the years spent on building that infamous and useless wall -using the latest technology, automatic artillery, hundreds of cameras, and much, much more.
The Wall is about 20 ft high and I believe, 80 ft deep, with sensors… A concrete and metal “White Elephant”…..as 7th Oct showed.
Lets’ hope the water in the internment camps are laced with birth control.
Also perhaps sexual segregation. Woman and Children (til 10 years of age in one camp and men and sheep in the other.
Stop already! Why would Israel want to rebuild Rafah at all? You are begging to have the tunnel highways to Egypt reinstated. I really don’t get it. If you have to build anything at all for the poor Gazans, (although I don’t see why), just clean up and expand Gaza City, but then clear a 3-5 km security zone around the place, so that it can be isolated (and besieged?) if it ever becomes necessary. Gaza should no longer be a “strip” of territory, but just a city, like Monaco, Hong Kong, or Singapore. Everything south of Gaza City should then be reclaimed and re-inhabited by Israelis. Some might then call Gaza City a prison, but if there is the right to come and go freely, that accusation would be hard to justify.
It’s probably a waste of my time and yours to even comment on this but there are a few points that deserve attention:
All the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at least up to 1967, were Egyptian subjects. They were interred in refugee camps like in many other spots around Israel by the local authorities. The UN and all of its various institutions like UNRWA should have enforced the rehabilitation of these refugees long ago, but instead insisted on keeping them locked up behind the barbed wire mentioned in the article. That barbed wire was neither produced nor installed by Israel but rather, in this case, by Egypt. Egypt has refused to acknowledge any responsibility whatsoever for these refugees nor allowed them to leave the Gaza Strip, with the exception of those who had lots of money to pay for their travel and grease multiple palms along the way.
The next point that caught my eye was the intention to locate the new buildings close to the Egyptian border where new tunnels, or maybe existing tunnels not yet found by the Israelis, can be used to provide the arms, rockets, paragliders, motor bikes and so on that are needed to continue the fight against the Jews and repeat the Oct 7, 2023 horror.
Another point of interest is that the Israelis intend to build these new, comfortable accommodations for their erstwhile enemies. I didn’t read of any contributions from around the world. These leaves Israel in a situation where it admits to causing the destruction but gets no or little help from all those who claim to endorse a state of Palestine. From my point of view, this is a non-starter. Of course, all those who endorse the state of Palestine should be very involved in the building of new housing and if the Gazans attack them while they’re there, it is good fun to kill the infidel. They should take the news back home.