Two groups of settler activists from the Nachala settlement organization crossed into Gaza on Thursday, marking the latest bid by ultranationalist stalwarts to anchor a Jewish presence in the enclave.

In the evening, several dozen men, women, young children and babies belonging to one of the group’s settlement cadres gathered around a large Israeli flag, in a photo published by the Nachala movement.

They planted the flag at a site that the organization claimed was near the former settlement of Morag in the southern part of the territory.

Earlier in the day, another group of Nachala activists crossed into Gaza and planted a flag that the organization said was at the site of the former kibbutz and settlement of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip.

The IDF said it removed the activists and prevented others from entering the territory.

Nachala staged its Gaza entry and flag-waving mission as part of its efforts advocating for the establishment of new Jewish settlements in Gaza, and........

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