In attendance at the “Settlements Bring Security” conference were twelve cabinet members and 15 coalition MKs.
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
An estimated 5,000 people and dozens of Israeli government ministers attended a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday calling for the re-establishment of settlements in Gaza, Times of Israel reports.
In attendance at the “Settlements Bring Security” conference were twelve cabinet members and 15 coalition MKs speaking in favor of resettling Gaza after the war.
Government ministers who attended were Religious Zionism leader Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Otzma Yehudit leader National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Likud ministers Miki Zohar, Haim Katz, Idit Silman, May Golan, Shlomo Karhi and Amichai Chikli.
Speaking at the conference, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pointed out that many of the soldiers fighting in Gaza were forcibly removed 19 years earlier when Jewish settlements on the Gaza Strip were dissolved.
Smotrich said, “We knew what that would bring and we tried to prevent it. Without settlements, there is no security.”
In 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented the disengagement policy during which 8,000 Jewish residents were removed from 21 communities in Gaza.
After the Palestinians were given control of these territories, Hamas forcibly ousted the Fatah party and imposed their absolute power in Gaza.
Israel has had repeated military conflicts with Hamas culminating in Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on October 7th, when they murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 250.
In his speech, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir described how he protested against disengagement and felt certain there would be “rockets upon Sderot” and “rockets upon Ashkelon” in southern Israel.
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