Far-Right Minister Claims Gaza “Inseparable Part” of Israel, Calls for Its Occupation

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister, said Tuesday that Israel was “closer than ever” to occupying Gaza and rebuilding illegal settlements there.

Speaking at a conference for the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in the summer of 2005, Smotrich claimed that the territory is “an inseparable part of the land of Israel.”

“It’s real,” he said of the idea of Israeli settlers’ returning to Gaza….