An estimated 5,000 people and a dozen Israeli government ministers attended a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday calling for the re-establishment of Jewish communities in Gaza.
Speaking at the conference, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pointed out that many of the soldiers fighting in Gaza were forcibly removed 19 years earlier when Jewish communities on the Gaza Strip were dissolved. Smotrich said, “We knew what that would bring and we tried to prevent it. Without settlements, there is no security.”
“We yelled and we warned,” Ben Gvir said. “If you don’t want another October 7, we need to return home and control the land.”