Military success in the Gaza Strip is lending momentum to a once-fringe idea in Israel: reoccupying the Palestinian enclave and repopulating it with Jewish settlers.
On Monday, Israeli Knesset members and senior government ministers attended a conference on re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip that was held in southern Israel near the Gaza border.
The Israeli military has launched a fresh assault on northern Gaza and ordered all Palestinian civilians living in the north to head south, signaling Israel may be enacting an ethnic cleansing plan that has been reviewed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Paramedics, rescue teams, and human rights groups accuse invading Israeli troops of organ harvesting and burying some Palestinians alive — in and around Nasser Hospital — following their withdrawal from the area earlier this month.
Senior official says Jerusalem working on postwar resettlement of Palestinians from Strip; some ministers tout Saudi Arabia as destination for Gazans seeking construction work
