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Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Minister in Netanyahu’s party doesn’t rule out Israeli settlements in Gaza
Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora affairs and social equality, arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Social Equality Minister Amichai Chikli says he doesn’t rule out Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, “in certain parts where it makes sense.”
Chikli, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, tells Ynet that the Palestinian Authority, “which educates toward terror and murder of Jews,” cannot take part in the running of Gaza after the war, reiterating the premier’s repeated stance.
“It is a fictitious authority,” he charges. “We didn’t pay with the blood of our best sons so that they get the control.”
He urges “thinking out of the box” regarding potential solutions, suggesting for example that “Rafah can be under Egyptian control and Khan Younis under Emirati control.”
