Israel turns Rafah into a pressure valve as Gaza concentration camp plans and aid cuts expose a dangerous new phase Right, so Israel has begun clearing ground in Rafah for what Israeli military figures themselves describe as a tightly controlled camp, with monitored entry and exit, biometric surveillance, and direct linkage to the only crossing Israel intends to open, but which they will never relinquish control of, no matter how many laws and accords that breaches. The moment you start preparing land for a concentration camp, which is what this is, you are no longer improvising under fire, you are committing to a governing structure and owning every single historical precedent it lays out. This single act collapses a whole set of claims people have been relying on. The claim that Gaza is not being administered. The claim that displacement is vol ...