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Media’s Grotesque Holocaust Dog Whistle: ‘Internment Camp’ Lie Built on Retracted Reuters Claim

Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
The Guardian described Israel as having drawn up “plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah,” in an analysis piece by Emma Graham-Harrison, the paper’s newly appointed Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent.
The BBC reported “plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in Rafah.”
ABC Australia ran a headline referring to the construction of a “large-scale camp,” citing so-called “human rights lawyers” who had denounced the proposal.
Germany’s DW News presented it as a foregone conclusion: “Israel to confine Gazans in camp near border.”
And the Irish Times went even further, dropping the pretense. A recent op-ed accused Israel of creating “ghettos” for Gazans.
The implication is chillingly clear. The Jewish State, they suggest, is now echoing the crimes once committed against its own people. Israel, the inheritor of Holocaust memory, has become a Nazi regime. The grotesque irony is not lost on the editors who chose these headlines. It is intentional.
And it is also clearly a lie.
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The claim that Israel is planning “internment camps” or “ghettos” is not grounded in fact. It stems from a statement by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he had instructed the IDF to prepare a plan to establish a “humanitarian city” in the southern Gaza Strip.
At no point — in English or Hebrew — did Katz use the word “camp,” nor did he imply mass internment or forced confinement.
According to Katz, the plan involves relocating approximately 600,000 Palestinians, primarily from the al-Muwasi area, into a new protected zone where humanitarian aid could be safely delivered. Individuals would undergo security screening to prevent Hamas terrorists from embedding themselves among civilians.
Even Haaretz, hardly a defender of the Israeli government, reported that the plan is unlikely to move forward due to concerns over its feasibility. There is no finalized proposal. No construction has begun. No orders have been given. It remains a theoretical contingency in a war where Hamas deliberately uses civilians as shields, and aid delivery is perilously complicated.
Worse still, Reuters, which initially reported on the plan using documents allegedly created by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and presented to the US embassy in Jerusalem, was forced to retract the claim. GHF publicly stated it had never authored the documents nor discussed them with any US officials. The “evidence” used to justify these incendiary headlines has collapsed.
So how did a hypothetical “humanitarian city” become an “internment camp” in the eyes of the global press?
The answer lies in a familiar media formula: strip Israeli proposals of all humanitarian intent, apply vocabulary that invokes the Nazi regime (a clear breach of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism), then quote human rights groups to legitimize the distortion. The result is a fabricated atrocity designed to illicit outrage.
Holocaust dog-whistles are not new in this war. But they are especially grotesque when directed at a nation fighting a terrorist group with actual genocidal intent. Hamas has openly declared its goal to annihilate Israel. And on October 7, 2023, it gave the world a glimpse of what that looks like when its fighters raped, mutilated, and murdered Israeli civilians in their homes.
Finally, Gaza — any part of it — is not a concentration camp. According to a report published Tuesday by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 100,000 Palestinians have left Gaza since the start of the war. Whatever else one might argue, the idea that civilians are being herded into camps and forcibly confined simply does not hold up.
The media’s casual flirtation with Holocaust inversion is not just offensive. It is factually wrong and morally repugnant. And in an era of rising global antisemitism, it must be called out for what it is — incitement against Jews.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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Report: IDF Probes Whether Houthis Used Iranian Cluster Bomb-Bearing Missile

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Israeli military said Saturday it launched a probe into the failure of its defenses to fully intercept a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi jihadists, parts of which struck not far from the Ben Gurion airport on Friday night.
According to the Ynet website, one of the hypotheses being examined is that the projectile contained cluster munitions, similar to those used by Iran to fire at Israeli cities during the 12-day war in June. Cluster munitions pose a challenge to interceptors as they disperse smaller explosives over a wide area.
In June, Iran fired several missiles carrying scattered small bombs with the aim of increasing civilian casualties.
The IDF said on Saturday that its initial review suggests the ballistic missile from Yemen likely fragmented in mid-air. Five interceptors from various systems engaged with the missile, including THAAD, Arrow, David Sling & Iron Dome.
Authorities said that shrapnel impacted a house in the central Israeli moshav of Ginaton, yet no one was hurt, with the fragment landing in the house’s backyard.
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Iran Forces Kill Six Militants, IRNA Reports, Israel Link Seen

The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 3, 2023. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Iranian security forces shot dead six militants in a clash in southeastern Iran on Saturday, a day after armed rebels killed five police officers in the restive region, the official news agency IRNA reported.
IRNA said evidence showed the group was linked to Israel and may have been trained by Israel‘s Mossad spy agency. There was no immediate Israeli reaction to the allegation.
Another two members of the militant group were arrested, the report said. All but one of the militants were foreign, it added, without giving their nationality.
Iranian police said this month they had arrested as many as 21,000 suspects during the 12-day war with Israel in June.
Iran’s southeast has been the scene of sporadic clashes between security forces and armed groups, including Sunni militants and separatists who say they are fighting for greater rights and autonomy.
Tehran says some of them have ties to foreign powers and are involved in cross-border smuggling and insurgency.
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Benny Gantz Urges Time-Limited National Unity Government to Further Chances of Hostage Deal

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz attends his party’s meeting at the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
i24 News – Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz on Saturday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition politicians to form a temporary national unity government to further the chances of bringing home the hostages held in Gaza.
Addressing Netanyahu, Yair Lapid and Avigdor Liberman, Gantz said that the proposed government’s two supreme priorities would be the release of Israeli hostages held by the jihadists of Hamas and instituting universal conscription in Israel by ending the exemption from military service enjoyed by the ultra-Orthodox.
Upon attainment of the goals, the government would dissolve and call an election.
“The government’s term will begin with a hostage deal that brings everyone home,” Gantz said in a video address. “Within weeks, we will formulate an enlistment outline that would see our ultra-Orthodox brethren drafted to the military and ease the burden on those already serving. Finally, we will announce an agreed-upon election date in the spring of 2026 and pass a law to dissolve the Knesset [Israeli parliament] accordingly. This is what’s right for Israel.”