Ex-president Halimah Yacob says part of Israel's plan to ‘completely push’ Palestinians out of Gaza or to build a ‘concentration camp’

Former president Halimah Yacob has spoken out again against the current situation in Gaza.

Her Facebook post on Jul. 16, 2025, shared screenshots of two articles from the Straits Times:

"UN says 875 Palestinians have been killed near Gaza aid sites" and "Attacks against Palestinians intensify in occupied West Bank, says UN rights office".

In her post, Halimah says there were no words to describe the continuing carnage except "impunity".

She however prayed that hearts were not hardened and that people did not become desensitised to the death of civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

She also highlighted how "60,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have already been killed by Israeli forces".

Ending off with this:

"Palestinians have been pushed out from all parts of Gaza to slivers of land in the south, part of a plan to completely push them out of Gaza or to build a concentration camp. On their own land. Impunity."

Spoken up before

This is not her first time commenting on the ongoing crisis.

The ongoing war has recently led to water shortages becoming increasingly problematic.

Fuel shortages have also reportedly caused desalination and sanitation facilities to close, forcing people to collect water from collection centres.

It was in that context that an air strike that killed 10 Palestinians were killed, including six children.

According to the BBC, eyewitnesses reportedly saw a missile fired by a drone into a crowd that was queueing up with jerry cans to collect water from a water distribution point in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

The aftermath of the strike saw injured people, including children, lying on the ground among yellow jerry cans while onlookers rushed to help.

The Israeli military claimed that the missile used on the civilians at the water tanker had originally targeted a "terrorist" in the area, according to Reuters.

A technical malfunction caused the missile to land "dozens of metres from the target" and on the crowd, they claimed, adding that the incident is under review.

Image from UNRWA/FB