BREAKING NEWS NETANYAHU REVEALS $5 BILLION PLAN TO REBUILD SETTLEMENTS TO ENCIRCLE GAZA
April 18, 2024As reported in The Cradle, the Israeli cabinet approved a five-year 19 billion shekel ($5 billion) plan to rebuild and strengthen settlements near Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday in a move largely on being interepreted to indicate the start of Israel’s expansionist plans to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and occupy it permanently.
“The Government will approve the Tekuma Plan to rebuild the communities in the Western Negev,” Netanyahu said during a government meeting. “We will invest the very large sum of NIS 19 billion [$5 billion] to move the communities of the Western Negev forward for generations. We will invest in housing, infrastructure, education, employment, health, and more.”
He added that Israel will “uproot” Hamas from the area and “deepen our roots. We will build the Land of Israel and safeguard our state.”
Tel Aviv has also been using the dust kicked up from the six-month-long war on Gaza as a shield for an ulterior motive to resettle back INSIDE the Gaza Strip.
One of the Israeli soldiers sent to Gaza early into the war recorded a video showing scenes from the destroyed enclave, to which he exclaimed, “We will complete the mission we have been assigned. CONQUER, EXPEL and SETTLE. You hear that, Bibi?”
As William Van Wagenen wrote in The Cradle, “the roots of Israel’s current campaign to conquer Gaza and ethnically cleanse its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants trace back almost two decades, originating with the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in 2005.”
Supporting the claim, Van Wagenen cited a soldier who recorded a video in which he said, “We returned. We were expelled from here almost 20 years ago. We started this battle divided and ended it united. We are fighting for the Land of Israel. This is our land! And that is the victory, to return to our lands.”
The war on Gaza also covered for settlement expansion projects in the occupied West Bank. Israeli NGO Peace Now revealed an “unprecedented surge” of settlement-building activities in January.
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