Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert made headline news upon calling the planned humanitarian transit areas “concentration camps”. No disputing Olmert’s statement: “If [the Palestinians] are to be exiled to the new ‘humanitarian aid city’, you can say this is part of ethnic cleansing.” 

Part of ethnic cleansing as a concept? Or part of ethnic cleansing of Zionist colonialism and the Nakba? That is the missing component of the Israeli-controlled narrative. If Olmert is merely stating the obvious, and his words were so widely reported, why not give even more weight to the Palestinian people’s assertions and lived experiences of ethnic cleansing, the Nakba and the genocide?

According to Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz, Palestinians within the so-called humanitarian transit area will not be allowed to leave. The Israeli Military’s Chief of Staff

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