Israel’s defence minister has pledged to resettle northern Gaza, in comments that ran counter to the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration as the leaders of the two countries prepare to meet.
Israel Katz said that “God willing?.?.?.?we will build in north Gaza” by bringing in military units from the Nahal brigade — which also specialises in establishing new communities — to replace the “settlements that were uprooted” during Israel’s 2005 disengagement from the Palestinian enclave.
“We will do this in the right way, at the right time,” Katz said on Tuesday at a ceremony in the settlement of Bet El, in the occupied West Bank, to mark the impending construction of more than 1,000 new housing units.