Zionist Israel turning Gaza into concentration camp: Analyst

The Zionist regime of Israel has turned the besieged Gaza Strip into a big concentration camp by paralyzing life for residents, an analyst says.

“The Gaza Strip is the world’s most densely populated urban area. Some call it the world’s biggest concentration camp,” Kevin Barrett wrote in a column for Press TV on Wednesday.

“The Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip has crippled Gaza’s main power plant for more than a month – and it’s getting worse. The power outage has wrecked Gaza’s waste water treatment system and flooded the streets with raw sewage,” the commentator wrote.

Barrett said the Gaza Strip is close to “becoming an extermination camp” due to Israeli and Egyptian blockades of the enclave.

He said the “killing the Palestinians slowly by depriving them of essential services may not satisfy” the Zionist regime.

An official report from the UN Humanitarian News Agency said recently that Israel is effectively destroying “all essential services, including hospitals, clinics, sewage and water pumping stations.”

Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.

“It is time for the world to come together and put an end to the madness of Zionism, before the madness of Zionism puts the world in trouble,” wrote Barrett.