to report «iusnews»; An Israeli minister called for re-occupying the Gaza Strip and establishing settlements there again.
Heritage Minister from the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party Amihai Eliyahu, justified his suggestion based on his view that Palestinians are incapable of governing the territory effectively, The Middle East Eye reported.
“The two states for two peoples is a delusion,” Eliyahu told Kan Radio on Friday.
“I don’t see the existing apparatuses of the Palestinians being able to manage the Strip without creating new terrorist cells there.”
He added that he backs the re-establishment of settlement in Gaza, but said now was not the right time.
The Head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees Agency (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini warned in an op-ed for the LA Times on Saturday that Israel may be preparing to force Palestinians in Gaza en masse into Egypt.
He said, 1.9 million Palestinians remain trapped on the Southern edge of the Gaza Strip amid dire humanitarian conditions.
“The developments we are witnessing point to attempts to move Palestinians into Egypt, regardless of whether they stay there or are resettled elsewhere,” wrote Lazzarini, adding the Israeli military’s destruction of Northern Gaza was “the first stage of such a scenario”.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
In the nine weeks since, Israeli strikes have killed 18,787 people in Gaza and injured more than 50,000, according to figures released on Thursday by the Gaza Health Ministry.
