Ben Gvir is committed to driving “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians out of Gaza: “I would love to live there”

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May 21. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, has insisted that “only Israel will control” the Gaza Strip once the war that has left more than 35,600 dead is over, and has opted for the mass exodus of “hundreds of Palestinians” to make room for Israeli settlers. “I would love to live in Gaza,” he said.

Ben Gvir has assured in an interview for the ultra-Orthodox news portal Kikar Hashabbat that he would like the war to extend to the entire city of Rafah, where the Israeli Army has recently launched a military operation, thereby worsening an already battered situation. humanitarian.

For the Minister of Security, reestablishing Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave “is not enough,” so it would be necessary to insist on the “voluntary migration” of the current inhabitants of the Strip.

In that sense, he has defended returning to the situation before 2005, when Israel ended 38 years of occupation and withdrew its troops and some 7,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip, after a second and much more violent intifada.