A day after the ICJ’s damning verdict that found Israel’s genocidal acts as fact, government ministers call for more war crimes
Around twenty Israeli government ministers and Knesset members have attended a right-wing extremist event demanding the clearing of Gaza and the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian people with Zionist settlers.
Security minister Itamar ben Gvir, communications minister Shlomo Karhi, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at, and a string of other members of the Netanyahu government and government parties attended, the event – titled “Conference for the Victory of Israel – Settlement Brings Security: Returning to the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria”.
Ben Gvir – himself an illegal settler – told the far right gathering of the imperative to ‘voluntarily’ move the Palestinian population out of Gaza:
We need to find a legal way to voluntarily emigrate [Palestinians] and impose death sentences on terrorists.
I turn to you, PM Netanyahu: this is time for brave decisions.
Smotrich, according to Israeli paper Haaretz, said:
We are rising, we have a nation of lions [and many children] are returning there as combat fighters. We must make sure they return there as settlers to protect the people of Israel.
Karhi clarified what a farce all talk of ‘voluntary’ migration is:
‘…voluntary’ is at times a state you impose [on someone] until they give their consent.
Katz added, in chilling language:
Today, after 18 years [from disengagement from Gaza], we have the opportunity to rebuild and expand the land of Israel. This is our final opportunity.
The conference came just a couple of days after another far-right event titled ‘Victory Convention: Conquer and Colonise Gaza’.
Israel has continued to slaughter hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its interim ruling, despite being ordered by the court to take all measures to prevent any Palestinians being killed. Now, after the court found as fact the genocidal language used by Israeli government figures, others are piling the evidence still higher.
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