A planned “humanitarian city” inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a “concentration camp,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.

An Israeli scheme to move hundreds of thousands of already uprooted Palestinians to a so-called "humanitarian city" in Gaza has led politicians to spar with the defence establishment, but officials say a practical plan has yet to be crafted.

STORY: Critics - both inside and outside Israel  - have condemned an Israeli scheme to move hundreds of thousands of already-displaced Palestinians to a so-called "humanitarian city" in Gaza.Some opposition critics have likened it to a "concentration camp" and said it could lead to ethnic cleansing.