We will encourage the "voluntary transfer" of all the people of the Gaza Strip, announced the Israeli National safety Minister Itamar Ben Gwir on Monday, during a conference entitled "Preparation for the repopulation of the Gaza Strip".
During a two-day event at the border of Israel with the Palestinian semi-enclave, judaic settlers were called upon to repopulate the full territory. respective 100 people attended the conference organised by right-wing parties and settlers groups.
– I will say something not everyone here is ready to admit, but I am ready and I know that many of you too: conquer, throw, resettle (...) and I am not talking about 1 area (zones) of Gaza, but about all inch of this land. said Sima Hasson, representing the group "The Mothers' Parade".
– To everyone in Europe who has a proposal about this situation, I say: do not engage, take care of each other, your full continent is being taken over by extremist Islam. You want to help? Accept Gazans we don't want in Gaza – added the activist, quoted by the diary “Haarec”.
Another activist Daniella Weiss said that her right-wing settler organization Nachala has 1 goal: to settle across the Gaza Strip. According to her, thousands of people are ready to do this, and Hamas' attack on Israel of 7 October 2023 changed history. After this event, "the Gasan Arabs lost their right to stay there forever," she said.
– We will encourage the voluntary transfer of all Gaza residents. We'll offer them a journey to another countries due to the fact that this land belongs to us. – was supplemented by Ben Gwir, who is besides the leader of the far-right judaic Power party.
Located at the Mediterranean Sea and the border with Egypt, a tiny area of the Gaza Strip belonged to the British Mandate of Palestine. According to the plan adopted by the UN in 1947, it was to be part of the future arabian state. Following the failure of the arabian war as a consequence of which Israel defended independence, the Palestinian state did not form and the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt.
After the six-day war in 1967, Israel took over the Gaza Strip, which began building settlements there. As a consequence of the peace agreements with Oslo, the Gaza Strip became part of the Palestinian Authority. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the area all soldiers and settlers, and since 2007 it has been ruled by Islamist Hamas, having been in conflict with the secular Fatah controlling the West Bank of Jordan – the second part of the Autonomy.
As of 7 October 2023, the Gaza Strip has a fresh dimension of the armed conflict. According to the authoritative version, in retaliation for the Hamas invasion, Israel began a inactive ongoing war to destruct this organization. Local authorities in the Gaza Strip are already talking about the deaths of over 42 000 out of over 2 million inhabitants of the area.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly assured that the resettlement of Gaza residents after the war was not an authoritative government plan. – We are not trying to resettle Gaza – he argued, but to "deilitarisation and deradicalisation" of this territory – as he stated in a speech at the UN in late September. At the same time, he powerfully excluded Hamas' engagement in the management of Gaza after the war.
Source: PAP (Jerzy Adamiak)
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