‘We’ll settle all over’: Far-right activists cross into Gaza, are caught by IDF |
A group of settler activists who crossed the border into the Gaza Strip on Thursday were caught by Israeli troops and returned to Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces said the civilians were stopped in the military’s buffer zone inside the Strip, before being brought back to Israel and handed over to the police for further questioning.
The incident came as hundreds of activists from the ultra-nationalist Nachala settlement organization staged a protest on the Gaza border, which the army has declared a closed military zone.
Nachala said some of its activists crossed the border into Gaza to plant trees, as part of its attempts to reestablish settlements that were fully evacuated during Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Strip in 2005.
On social media, the group published a short clip, set to rousing music, from outside the Gaza border fence, in which a man can be heard yelling from a white pick-up truck outside the Gaza border fence, “We planted a tree in Gaza,” to the applause of people off-camera.
“God willing, we’ll settle all over Gaza,” an activist declares.
שתלנו עצים בעזה, בעזרת השם נתיישב בכל חבל עזה!
צפו: אחת הקבוצות שנכנסה ושתלה עצים בתוך חבל עזה!????????????????????........