The head of the Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich, called for “re-occupation of the Gaza Strip and encouraging Palestinians to emigrate from it.”

Commenting on the military operation launched by Israel on Friday, which ended on Sunday with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, he noted that “the military operation was conducted well, but all concepts of success and failure are distorted.”

Smotrich stressed: “Since we were expelled from Gush Katif 17 years ago, we have become accustomed to repeated rounds of fighting – this equation is not normal,” adding: “Gaza will need a major decision, and there is no escape from the return. from there and encouraging immigration from there.”

And Gush Katif is an Israeli settlement bloc of 21 settlements in the southern Gaza Strip that Israel withdrew from in 2005 during the era of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as part of a unilateral disengagement process. A ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip went into effect Sunday evening after a three-day escalation that left 45 Palestinians dead, including 15 children and 4 women, and another 360 injured. after the Egyptians called for a ceasefire.