IDF defies Netanyahu’s plan for ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza (The Times, 2025-07-08)
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>> The Israeli military has refused to carry out a plan to confine … people in a new “humanitarian city” in Gaza, after senior officers objected and reservists said it would be a war crime.
>> The office of Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, … said that the military’s duties did not involve forcibly moving civilians either within or out of the Gaza Strip…
>> … actively resisted … a group of dissenting Israeli reservist soldiers, who argued in a petition to the country’s supreme court that forced population expulsions by troops could be a violation of international law.
>> “Relocating and concentrating an entire population is … a war crime. Framing it in humanitarian language does not change the nature of this crime,” said Yotam Vilk, a reservist officer who served in Gaza and is part of Soldiers for the Hostages …