Far-right minister – Middle East Monitor

Israel is “closer than ever” to reoccupying the Gaza Strip and rebuilding settlements there, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

“We are closer than ever to rebuilding Gush Katif,” Smotrich said at a conference in Yad Binyamin, central Israel.

Gush Katif, a bloc of 21 settlements in southern Gaza, was dismantled under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s 2005 disengagement plan, which also saw the evacuation of four…