Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront - BBC News

They see an opportunity to push for a return of Jewish settlements to the Palestinian territory.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, BBC/Goktay Koraltan Image caption, Settler numbers are rising fast under Benjamin Netanyahu's governmentBy Orla GuerinBBC international correspondent, West BankWho wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.

Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.

"I have friends in Tel Aviv," she says, "so they say, 'Don't forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,' because it's a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand".

She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.

Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68650815

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