From settlements to blocked recovery: Israeli strategy taking shape in Gaza
- With the ruins of the Gaza Strip lying around him, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz last week renewed his push to set up illegal settlements in the battered territory’s north.
- “I intend to establish three Nahal outposts, which is also a military entity, in those places that were in northern Gaza,” Katz told Channel 14, referring to bases that combine farming with an armed presence in a bid to consolidate control over a territory.
- The minister said, in his view, establishing these settlements would enhance security – but execution would have to be “in the right way, at the right timing, while
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- With the ruins of the Gaza Strip lying around him, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz last week renewed his push to set up illegal settlements in the battered territory’s north.
- “I intend to establish three Nahal outposts, which is also a military entity, in those places that were in northern Gaza,” Katz told Channel 14, referring to bases that combine farming with an armed presence in a bid to consolidate control over a territory.
- The minister said, in his view, establishing these settlements would enhance security – but execution would have to be “in the right way, at the right timing, while
Sources: Al Jazeera