Israeli soldiers in Gaza went over their superiors’ heads earlier last week to help a settler leader enter the Strip to survey sites for potential Jewish settlements, Hebrew media reported, as the army probed the death in combat of 71-year-old amateur archaeologist who was apparently allowed into southern Lebanon without the necessary authorization.
According to a report Thursday by the Kan public broadcaster, Daniella Weiss, who is leading efforts to resettle northern Gaza, toured the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence with colleagues on November 13. The group eventually traversed the border, through unclear means, going a short way into the Strip.
Near central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, Weiss was said to have contacted soldiers she was acquainted with, who sent a jeep to pick up her and fellow activists and ferry them deeper into the Strip, to the former site of Netzarim — a Jewish settlement dismantled by Israel during the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza.
TVNL Comment: Land grab and ethnic cleansing since 1948.
