The “humanitarian city” project has become a sticking point in ceasefire talks with Hamas. He said that if Palestinians were forced to move to the camp, it would constitute ethnic cleansing. View image in fullscreen The former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has likened the project to a concentration camp. Finance ministry officials raised other practical objections to the “humanitarian city” plan, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Senior Israeli officials estimate that constructing a proposed “humanitarian city” in the Rafah area would cost between $2.7bn and $4bn, Ynet reported.