The Israeli occupation army revealed the illegal entry of the godmother of the settlement movement, Daniela Weiss, into the Gaza Strip, in the same week in which Israeli historian and researcher Zeev Erlich (71 years old) was killed by Hezbollah after entering a war zone in Lebanon in violation of official protocol.
Hebrew media reported that Israeli soldiers in Gaza bypassed their superiors earlier last week to help the leader of the settler movement enter the Strip, to conduct a survey of potential Jewish settlement sites.
According to a report issued last Thursday by the Public Broadcasting Corporation, the head of the Nahala settlement movement, Daniela Weiss, who is leading efforts to restore settlement to northern Gaza, toured the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence with her colleagues on November 13, before crossing The group eventually crossed the border, through unclear means, and made it a short way into the Gaza Strip.
Near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, Weiss was said to have contacted soldiers she knew already, and they sent a jeep to pick her up with a number of activists in the settlement movement who were with her. They were then transported deep into the Strip, specifically to the former site of the Netzarim settlement that Israel dismantled. 2005.
According to the same sources, the settlers were then transferred again to the Gaza border, where they left through an unofficial gate to avoid being stopped by security forces.
Entered without official approval
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation claimed that senior officials in the Israeli army were not aware that Vice had entered the Strip. It also stated that military sources doubted its entry into Gaza after examining entry records for several months and failing to determine who had approved its entry.
The Israeli army said that Weiss’ entry into the Gaza Strip is unknown and was not approved by appropriate means, stressing that if it had indeed occurred, “it is illegal and in violation of the protocol, and will be dealt with accordingly.”
For its part, Weiss emphasized, it entered Gaza using the same method it used in the West Bank: clinging to the Israeli military presence and establishing civilian communes that the government would eventually recognize.
Speaking to Israeli media, Weiss described how she intends to take advantage of the military presence in Gaza to gradually settle Jews, talking about adapting all kinds of creative ideas to achieve this: Here you have a tent, and next to the tent there is a temple, and next to that there is a kitchen, and next to that there are children, And so it continues.”
There will be no Arabs in Gaza
Weiss has called more than once for the establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip, and said that the Strip will not include an Arab population after the end of the current war.
Earlier, CNN quoted Weiss as saying that 500 families had submitted requests for settlement in Gaza, and considered that “returning to Gaza is a priority after the attack of October 7, 2023.”
Weiss was speaking at a media session at her home in the Qarneh Shomron settlement in the West Bank, and discussed with those present plans to revive the Gush Katif settlement bloc in Gaza, which was evacuated by the Israeli army in 2005.
Weiss invited those present to register their names on the list of those wishing to move to settlement in Gaza, and stressed that she is completely convinced that this will happen in her lifetime.
Weiss (78 years old) supervises the “Nahala” organization, whose name means “inheritance” and is considered the most famous among the organizations seeking to rebuild settlements in Gaza. One of the organization’s members said that they will send a representative to Florida, USA, to collect funds in order to implement settlement plans in Gaza.