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Radical Israelis call for “return to Gaza”
Right-wing extremist Israelis have called for a resettlement of the embattled coastal strip at a rally on the edge of the Gaza Strip. "Gaza is part of the land of Israel!" was written on the T-shirt of one of the event participants.
Members, MPs and a minister from the right-wing conservative governing party Likud, whose chairman is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were also invited to the event, which was held under the slogan "Return to Gaza".
However, a Likud spokesperson emphasized that this was not an event in the name of the party, but a "local initiative". The initiative by the radical settler organization Nachala took place as part of the Feast of Tabernacles. The week-long pilgrimage festival commemorates the biblical wilderness wanderings of the people of Israel. One of several huts erected bore the name of the Likud party.
Netanyahu rules out resettlement
Israel withdrew its army from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and forcibly evacuated around 20 settlements in the coastal strip. Right-wing extremist Israelis, including ministers in Netanyahu's government, are now calling for the return of settlers to the area. However, Netanyahu himself had described plans to resettle the Gaza Strip after the war against the Islamist Hamas as unrealistic.
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