Conflicts: Israel’s Defense Minister: Settlement of Gaza’s North | EUROtoday

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has spoken of a settlement within the northern Gaza Strip. The politician from the right-wing conservative ruling get together Likud clearly contradicted US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, which envisages a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from the coastal strip.

At an occasion within the occupied West Bank, Katz stated that “with God’s help, when the time comes,” settlement facilities may even be constructed within the north of the Gaza Strip, on the websites of Israeli settlements evacuated 20 years in the past. This shall be achieved “in the right way and at the right time”.

Katz additionally spoke of a “major revolution” within the West Bank, the place Israel not too long ago determined to create extra settlements. Internationally, Israeli settlements within the space that the Palestinians declare as a part of their very own state are considered as unlawful and a hurdle to a peace settlement.

In August, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Israel had no plans to occupy and repopulate the Gaza Strip. “That’s not my policy,” the 76-year-old Likud chief stated on the time.