For weeks folks dwelling in northern Gaza, like Dr Mohammad Salha, have been sheltering from a renewed offensive by Israel. Israel has informed civilians to go away, and meals and humanitarian support has stopped. Salha is the performing director of the al-Awda hospital – and has stayed behind to deal with sufferers. He says there is just one surgeon left to do life-saving operations within the space, and meals, medicines and electrical energy are vanishingly scarce. He has watched as 1000’s have fled, together with his household. It isn’t clear when they are going to be allowed to return or in the event that they ever will.
But simply over the border from Gaza, one group of far-right Israelis have a plan. Settlers from the Nachala organisation have held a convention within the closed navy zone of the strip’s periphery to debate shifting into the Gaza Strip and taking on land there, to construct their very own properties. The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, was there and mentioned so have been members of the Knesset and cupboard ministers. And, she says, whereas plans to “re-settle” Gaza are at a speculative stage, the presence of politicians showi how the settler motion has grown in significance and energy.
Reporter Ruth Michaelson went to go to Nachala’s 79-year-old chief, Daniella Weiss. She met a well-connected lady who has had many years of expertise in settling land – and who talked brazenly about different settlers asking her to promote them plots of land in Gaza to stay on.
Bethan tells Michael that whereas Netanyahu has mentioned he doesn’t need settlements in Gaza, “folks in his personal occasion, in addition to the far-right parts of the federal government, his coalition companions have been speaking about it like it will occur”. She explains how the arrival of Donald Trump may have an effect on this.
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