Israel at War, Day 376: Netanyahu's Party Invites Israelis to 'Resettling Gaza' Event

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IDF says it struck 'strategic weapons' stored by Hezbollah in underground facility in Beirut ■ EU countries contributing to UNIFIL have no intention of pulling back troops despite calls from Israel to withdraw, Austria's FM says ■ IDF says it allowed 50 aid trucks into north Gaza ■ U.K. PM Starmer says his government is considering sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers ■ Here's what you need to know 376 days into the war

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■ PM Netanyahu's Likud party circulated an invitation to an event near the Gaza border titled "Preparing to Settle Gaza." The event, scheduled for next week, will feature the construction of a sukkah as part of a "city of sukkahs" initiative by the Nachala movement, which is known for establishing illegal outposts in the West Bank. Several Likud members as well as government ministers, such as far-right ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, are expected to attend.

Source : Haaretz

Link : https://archive.md/lXHWY#selection-1279.0-1287.307

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‘It is doable’: 10 Likud MKs to attend conference calling for ‘resettling Gaza’

Almost a third of lawmakers in Netanyahu’s party to participate in event organized by Nachala Settlement Movement, after a similar confab months ago drew widespread backlash

By Jeremy Sharon Follow
and ToI Staff
16 October 2024

Ten of the 32 lawmakers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, including a cabinet minister, announced on Wednesday that they will be participating in a conference tagged “Preparing to Resettle Gaza” scheduled for next week in the Gaza border region close to Sderot.

“A year after the pogroms (of October 7), we will stand together — Likud members, regional [Likud] branch chairs, MKs and ministers — to jointly declare that ‘Gaza is ours. Forever,'” a poster advertising the October 21 event read.

“Victory is settlement. It is doable” added a message on a Gaza settlement WhatsApp channel where it announced the participation of nearly one-third of the Likud faction Knesset members.

The Likud legislators set to participate are Social Equality Minister MK May Golan and MKs Avichay Buaron, Sasson Guetta, Tally Gotliv, Eli Dallal, Nissim Vaturi, Hanoch Milwidsky, Ariel Kallner, Kati Shitrit and Osher Shkalim.

The event — in which relatives of some of the Gaza hostages will participate along with bereaved families and families of active duty soldiers — is being organized by the Nachala Settlement Movement organization, which advocates for Jewish settlement in the West Bank where it has helped establish illegal settlement outposts.

Nachala organized another conference in January, which also advocated for the reestablishment of Israeli settlements in Gaza in addition to “encouraging voluntary emigration” of Palestinians out of the Strip. The gathering was attended by over two dozen ministers and lawmakers.

Other organizers of the event next week include the far-right Otzma Yehudit party headed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and the youth chapter of the far-right Religious Zionism party led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Smotrich and Ben Gvir are expected to attend the conference, along with Otzma Yehudit Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the idea of Israeli civilians resettling Gaza. But critics fear the premier’s prosecution of the war could lead in that direction, pointing to the latest military operations in northern Gaza, which have included mass evacuation orders and little to no humanitarian aid allowed in for nearly two weeks. Israel says it is trying to prevent the revival of Hamas in the area and that there are no ulterior motives for the north Gaza operation.

The US has spoken out against the resettlement of Gaza, and included that stance in one of its principles for the post-war management of Gaza. The Biden administration also called the messaging of the previous Nachala-led conference “inflammatory and irresponsible.”

More @ : https://www.timesofisrael.com/it-is-doable-10-likud-mks-to-attend-conference-calling-for-resettling-gaza/

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B'Tselem at the UNSC: For the Israeli government, the occupation and the settlements matter more than human life

On Sunday, we woke up to the news that six Israeli hostages were executed by Hamas, just before soldiers reached them in a tunnel in Gaza. Another six, added to tens of thousands of people in this land who should not have died over the past year. During this week, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets. They feel angry, desperate and betrayed by their government. They have understood, perhaps for the first time, that the Israeli government does not want to return the hostages in a deal, but to continue the war indefinitely.They see that the occupation and the settlements matter more than human life - and not only of Palestinians, said B'Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak, who addressed the UN Security Council last night (Wednesday) . B’Tselem - the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was invited by the Slovenian President of the Security Council to provide an expert review of the state of human rights in Israel/Palestine following the war.

Novak added “Since the criminal Hamas-led attack on October 7th, I and every Israeli I know have been living in deep anxiety. The government is cynically exploiting our collective trauma to violently advance its project of cementing Israeli control over the entire land. To do that, it is waging war on the entire Palestinian people, including committing war crimes almost daily”.

Continued @ https://www.btselem.org/video/20240905_btselem_at_unsc#full