Israel minister calls for colonisation of Gaza and expulsion of Palestinians

Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, once again called for the ‘colonisation of Gaza’. The minister, who is of Iraqi origins, also said Palestinians should be encouraged to ‘willingly emigrate to their own countries’. Humanitarian aid should not be allowed into Gaza, he added. Since October, Ben-Gvir has called on Palestinian women and children in Gaza to be shot, the execution of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails to ‘free up prison space’ and recently threatened to resign from the government and force its collapse if the genocidal war in Gaza is brought to an end.