Netanyahu backs Gaza 'concentration camp' plan, says 'feed them Ben & Jerry’s’

Haaretz has reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a plan to confine Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to a so-called "humanitarian city" in Rafah, a plan critics have compared to a concentration camp. 

Under the proposal, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be admitted into the camp after undergoing security screening. Once inside, they would be offered food and healthcare, but would not be permitted to leave. 

"Give them Ben & Jerry's, for all I care," Netanyahu has said, a source told Haaretz. 

According to the Israeli daily, Netanyahu does not rule out the possibility of Israel running the site in the short term. 

Another senior political official said that a governing system in Gaza "will be responsible for life there" but that "maybe for the time being, it will be us".

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