The three independent experts cited personal reasons and a need for change, in the first such group resignation since the Human Rights Council was founded.

Plans to force Palestinians into a “humanitarian city” in Gaza would be akin to a concentration camp, a former Israeli prime minister has said. Ehud Olmert claimed construction of the camp would mark an escalation in the conflict and that he now considers Israel to be committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has strongly criticized a proposed plan to create a so-called “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza, warning that it could amount to ethnic cleansing and comparing it to a “concentration camp.