The “Humanitarian City”: Israel’s new pretext for colonization in Gaza
Mizan Online News Agency
Mizan Online News Agency
The Israeli regime's proposed plan to build a so-called “humanitarian city” for Gaza's residents—or alternatively, to continue its occupation of more Palestinian land—ultimately leads to the same result for Palestinians: colonization.
Whether under the guise of humanitarian relief or outright military expansion, the impact on the people of Gaza remains unchanged: displacement, dispossession, and further subjugation.
According to a report by Middle East Monitor, the so-called “humanitarian city” is not a gesture of compassion, but another form of control amid the international community’s silence and inaction. The world is too preoccupied with managing the evolving dynamics of human rights discourse to pay attention to the actual erosion of human rights on the ground.
Human rights, it appears, are no longer truly rights. In the case of Gaza, it is Israel that determines the violations, and the international community that decides how best to preserve its own diplomatic image—while Palestinians are tortured, displaced, starved, and killed.
Palestinians are made to serve a humanitarian model, rather than benefit from one. So when the Israeli military proposes further occupation of Gaza lands as an “alternative” to mass internment camps, what expectations can there be? None but more of the same.
Israeli war minister Yisrael Katz recently declared that the military has taken control of 70% of Gaza's territory. If Israel expands its occupation and denies Palestinians the right to return to their homes, the result will resemble internment more extreme than Gaza’s previous status as an open-air prison.



















