Students of Orot Etzion school holding Israeli flags during a march marking Gush Katif Day, in Israeli settlement of Neve Daniel, in the West Bank, January 29, 2019. (Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir lays out vision for luxurious neighborhood built for Israeli police officers after current IDF operation is completed and Gaza City leveled.
By World Israel News Staff
A senior Israeli minister called Monday for Israel to re-establish a permanent Jewish presence in the Gaza Strip, laying out plans for the construction of a luxury neighborhood over the ruins of Gaza City.
Speaking at an event in Beit Shemesh ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) told senior police officers that he envisions permanent Israeli control over the entire Gaza Strip, with the government aiding large-scale voluntary mass migration of Gazans out of the coastal enclave.
In addition, Ben-Gvir said Israel must resettle the Gaza Strip and proposed the establishment of a luxury neighborhood in northern Gaza for police officers.
“We will finish the mission, occupy Gaza, encourage voluntary emigration,” Ben-Gvir said.
“With God’s help, I am already planning the next neighborhood for police officers, which will be in one of the most beautiful places in the Middle East — we will finish the decisive battle in Gaza City, and we will establish there a magnificent police neighborhood overlooking the sea. Settlement brings security, and the time has come for Jewish settlement in Gaza.”
Ben-Gvir’s address came a month after the 20th anniversary of the 2005 Gaza disengagement plan, during which the Israeli government evacuated all 21 Israeli towns in the Gaza Strip, four others in northern Samaria, and handed control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.
A longtime right-wing activist and attorney, Ben-Gvir protested against the disengagement, leading supporters in establishing a short-lived outpost in an abandoned hotel in Gush Katif. Prior to the Disengagement, Ben-Gvir and his fellow activists were evicted by police.
“The time has come to settle – Jewish settlement,” Ben-Gvir added. “The time has come to encourage voluntary emigration [of Gazans], the time has come to bring the death penalty for terrorists.”
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