Overview

• Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the military to ready a “humanitarian city” in Rafah to hold an initial 600,000 Palestinians and eventually Gaza’s two million residents with no exit allowed
• The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has denied authoring the transit-camp proposal seen in recent U.S. planning documents
• Rights groups and legal experts say the relocation scheme would breach international humanitarian law and risk constituting crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing
• United Nations figures show that 85 percent of Gaza is already under evacuation orders or fully militarized by Israel, intensifying overcrowding and humanitarian shortages
• U.S. planning documents linked to President Trump’s Gaza vision propose a $2 billion plan to build large-scale transit camps inside or outside the territory