DayofPal– Yitzhak Goldknopf, Israel’s Minister of Housing and Construction, emphasized that “Jewish settlement” in Gaza is a fitting response to the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
“Jewish settlement here is the answer to the terrible massacre and the answer to the International Criminal Court in The Hague who, instead of caring for the 101 abductees, chose to issue orders against the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence,” he wrote in a post on social media after he “toured the Gaza Strip settlements” on Thursday.
According to the Times of Israel, the minister didn’t enter Gaza, instead surveying the Palestinian territory from the border through binoculars.
Accompanying him was Daniella Weiss, the head of the hardline Israeli Nachala Settlement Movement, who was pictured showing Goldknopf a map of proposed future Israeli settlements in the war-torn enclave, labeled, in English, “map of the [settlement nuclei] in Gaza.”
“The seeds of the settlement are ready! Only settlement will bring security! Our Gaza. Forever,” the Nachala movement later said on social media.
Goldknopf has “repeatedly endorsed reestablishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip after the war” ends, The Times of Israel said.
In May, Goldknopf released a video message endorsing an Independence Day march demanding renewed Israeli settlement in the Strip.
In August, Goldknopf called for a dramatic expansion of settlement activity while accompanying Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock and Yossi Dagan, chairman of the Samaria Regional Council, on a visit to the recently legalized Evyatar settlement in the West Bank.
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