Gaza authorities warn of Israeli scheme to set up ‘forced isolation camps’ for Palestinians
The Palestinian government in Gaza has denounced plans by Israel to set up so-called “aid-distribution camps” cautioning they will resemble “Nazi ghettos,” and warning that the move would constitute a policy of “forced isolation” and “systemic segregation” of Palestinians in the war-torn territory.
The Government Media Office alerted on Wednesday, after Tel Aviv said it planned to force hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinians from northern parts of the enclave into six encampments, where food will be distributed by aid groups and private contractors, effectively making relocation a condition for survival.
“We categorically reject the occupation’s plans to establish forced isolation camps akin to Nazi ghettos through control over humanitarian aid and its distribution as part of a systematic segregation policy, in clear violation of all principles of international law,” the office said in a statement.
It also stressed that Palestinians would resist such inhumane efforts, which aim to weaponize aid by turning it into an instrument of siege and starvation.
“The Palestinian people in all their components will confront these criminal schemes, which aim to turn humanitarian aid into a tool of siege, starvation and subjugation, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the principles of justice and human dignity,” the statement further read.
The Government Media Office also called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to swiftly intervene and stop the “systematic chaos” imposed on inhabitants of the war-ravaged territory.
Since the Israeli military broke a two-month ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement in mid-March, the occupying entity has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid, including medicine, fuel, and food supplies into Gaza, drastically worsening the humanitarian crisis in the territory, where even clean water is critically scarce.
Dozens of people, mostly children, have died from starvation.
According to a World Bank report, the current crisis in Gaza has now made nearly all of its population almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid due to prolonged war and blockade.
Nearly all of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, often multiple times, since the regime launched its genocidal war on the territory in October 2023.
