Israel's far-right finance minister, Benzalel Smotrich, called on Palestinian residents in Gaza to leave to make room for Israelis who “can make the desert bloom.”
Smotrich, who has been barred from the War Council and from settlement talks on the future of Gaza, echoes concerns about Israel's intentions to empty the Palestinian enclave by evicting Palestinians from their land in a repeat of the mass expropriations of 1948. .
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage immigrationBenjamin Netanyahu's far-right minister told Israel's military radio station. “If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the whole conversation for the next day will be completely different».
An 2.3 million of the population are no longer there “growing up seeing the destruction of the state of Israel», Gaza will be treated differently than Israelhe said.
“Most of Israeli society will say “why not, it's a nice place, let's make the desert bloom, it's not hurting anyone».
Benzalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right Religious Zionist party, which is backed by Jewish settlers, has made similar comments in the past, angering the US.
Smotrich's party, which helped Netanyahu secure a parliamentary majority to return to the prime ministership for a sixth term nearly a year ago, has seen its numbers slide since the start of the Gaza war.
Source: News Beast
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