Israel: Far-right finance minister says Gaza must be “conquered”.

The party’s Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should “conquer” the Gaza Strip and halve the local Palestinian population through a “voluntary migration”. Speaking last night at a conference organized by the Yesha Council, an organization representing settlers in the occupied West Bank, Smotrich stressed that “we can and must conquer the Gaza Strip, we must not be afraid of that word.” “There is no doubt that in Gaza, with an encouragement of voluntary immigration, there is here, in my opinion, a unique opportunity that opens up with the new (Trump) administration,” added the minister, who heads the far-right party “Religious Zionism”. “Crime against humanity” “We can create a situation in which, within two years, the population of Gaza will be halved,” the finance minister continued. On November 14, Human Rights Watch deemed the repeated forced displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip a crime against […]
Source: News Beast

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