Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 04.12.2024
According to a report by Younis Tirawi, a journalist of Drop Site (dropsitenews@substack.com), “on November 28, Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf visited the border of Gaza, accompanied by Daniella Weiss, the most known of the Zionist settler movement, with the explicit goal of finding sites for resettlement. Goldknopf posted a photo looking through binoculars at the area. “Today I toured the Gaza Strip settlements,” he wrote.” [i]
“Goldknopf also wrote that the expedition was retaliation for the ICC arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “Jewish settlement here is the answer to the terrible massacre and the answer to the International Criminal Court in The Hague who, instead of caring for the 101 hostages, chose to issue arrest warrants against the prime minister and the minister of defense, he wrote” [ii]
“The tour included the entrance to Tzir Netazir [the Netzarim corridor]. A post by Weiss’s Nachala Settler Movement detailed the importance of the Zionists settling there. Israel has conducted extensive demolitions in the Netzarim corridor that divides northern and central Gaza as the Israeli army works day and night to cleanse the Palestinians from north Gaza ethnically. “[iii]
“In addition to the Israeli military conducting extensive demolitions, Drop Site News has uncovered that Israel has now contracted private companies specializing in settler construction to work in northern Gaza. One construction company confirmed it is hiring for operations in Beit Lahia, a town adjacent to the northern border of Gaza. This is the first time a private company has been documented working north of Gaza” [iv]
“A job advertisement from Libi Construction and Infrastructure Ltd.—a settlement construction company registered in the illegal outpost of Shiloh near Ramallah—was recently posted in a Facebook group named “reservists” to conduct demolitions in Gaza. But the use of private contractors enables civilian workers, not just Israeli reservists, to enter Gaza. “Looking for bulldozer operators for demolition work in Gaza,” the job description reads, “The job is also relevant for those who have not served in the army. Good pay.”[v]
The job posting comes as Israel is annihilating northern Gaza. “Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. There is no Beit Lahia, no Beit Hanoun,” former Israeli military chief of staff and defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said in widely publicized, critical marks on November 30. Ya’alon has previously boasted about destroying thousands of residential units in Gaza who now finds himself in opposition to the government. “They are currently operating in Jabalia and clearing the area of Arabs.”
Several settlers own Libi Construction and have been widely documented by numerous Israeli NGOs and monitoring groups with a long record of attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. According to Kerem Navot (Naboth’s Vineyard), an Israeli NGO that monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the occupied West Bank, the company built the settlement of “Adei Ad” and has earned a notorious reputation for being one of the most violent and brutal outposts in the occupied West Bank. According to Israeli researcher Dror Etkes, founder of Kerem Navot, the company has close connections to Amana, a settler organization currently under U.S. sanctions, and the settlement council in the West Bank.
In an article from last year, Israeli right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon details the efforts of Harel Libi and his wife Talia in a lengthy interview. His wife told the newspaper how she and her husband dedicated themselves to establishing as many settlements as possible. They moved frequently, even setting up illegal outposts under Israeli law, to settle as much land as they could and take territory from Palestinians” [vi]
Israel out of the entire Gaza now!
Down with the Zionist monster for Palestine red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-private-construction-company-beit-lahia-northern-gaza
[ii] Ibid
[iii] Ibid
[iv] Ibid
[v] Ibid
[vi] Ibid