[News] Satellite images show Gaza's Rafah flattened for new Israeli concentration camp

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Satellite images show Gaza's Rafah flattened for new Israeli
concentration camp

Tel Aviv is moving forward with plans to force hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians into the ruins of Rafah, with those left outside reportedly
set to be identified as 'Hamas terrorists' and eliminated

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JUL 11, 2025 -
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(Photo credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)

New satellite imagery published
<https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1943708948067987866?t=vh1xo2-mJt2oDgQ2iet8cw&s=19>
by *Al-Jazeera *reveals that Israeli forces have flattened most of Rafah, a
city in southern Gaza, as part of a large-scale plan to forcibly transfer
Gaza’s population into a confined area.

The footage shows widespread demolition and land clearing, with rubble from
destroyed neighborhoods leveled to create a vast, empty zone.

The site, located on the border with Egypt, is where Israel reportedly
intends to relocate Gaza’s entire population—over two million people.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has publicly stated that the goal is
to eventually move all Gaza residents into this zone, which the military
describes as a “Hamas-free area" or “humanitarian city.”

According to reports
<https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/07/10/report-israel-considering-partial-withdrawal-as-part-of-deal/>
in Hebrew media, the plan also calls for Palestinians caught outside these
zones  to be “identified as Hamas terrorists, providing legal justification
for their elimination.”

The Israeli military began preparing for this mass displacement after
unilaterally breaking the last ceasefire in March.

Before the war, Rafah was home to nearly 200,000 people.

The city suffered extensive damage during earlier bombing campaigns, but
the destruction captured in recent satellite imagery is significantly more
complete. Entire districts have been bulldozed and then smoothed out, with
only a few structures left standing.

Among those spared are thirty-nine schools, seven medical centers, and one
university.

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has already begun limited
food distribution within the cleared areas. However, entering the site is
fraught with danger.

The zone is under strict Israeli military control, and since the GHF began
operations in late May, Israeli forces have reportedly shot and killed
hundreds of Palestinians attempting to reach the aid centers.

The military’s intent appears to go beyond tactical destruction.

British-Israeli analyst and commentator Daniel Levy says that the Israeli
government’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire is part of a wider effort to
erase Gaza as a place for Palestinians to live. Israel is waging a
“permanent war” designed to lead to ethnic cleansing, with the
“humanitarian city” serving as the vehicle to do so.

The Israeli newspaper *Haaretz* published
<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-07-10/ty-article-opinion/israel-wants-to-build-the-most-moral-concentration-camp-in-the-world/00000197-f0b3-d963-addf-f4b7029a0000>
a scathing editorial on the situation, calling the effort to concentrate
the population of Gaza in Rafah a “criminal plan.”

The editorial warned that it represents a “moral and historic nadir” for
the Israeli state and the Jewish people. “No matter how they try in Israel
to wrap this move with laundered epithets,” the newspaper stated, “they are
talking about a concentration camp.”
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