TEL AVIV, December, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli Knesset member from the Likud party, Avichai Bo'Aron, submitted a draft  aimed at allowing freedom of movement for Israelis within the Gaza Strip, after years of being banned from entering under the "Disengagement" Law, in preparation for colonization in the Strip.

The draft said, "In the summer of 2005, the Israeli government decided to expel all its Jewish residents from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank and withdraw from the area, and as part of this decision, the Knesset passed a law to implement the "disengagement."

He continued, "The law prohibiting the entry of Israelis into these areas is reminiscent of dark periods in the history of the Jewish people, during the Holocaust."

He said, "Freedom of existence and full movement (for Jews) must be allowed in the Gaza Strip, as is the case in all areas of the Land of Israel."

The draft, according to its text, aims to emulate the measures taken in the northern West Bank, where restrictions on the entry of Israelis were lifted and the "Homesh" settlement was rebuilt, and it believes that "lifting the restrictions on Gaza may open the door to the establishment of new settlement blocs within the Strip."

The new draft joins the law that the Knesset approved in March to cancel the plan to separate from four settlements in the northern West Bank, as part of the "disengagement" plan from Gaza that the Israeli government implemented in 2005.

Recently, Knesset members from The Likud and Religious Zionism parties, in partnership with the settler leaders, have formed a “civilian parliamentary working group” that aims to repeal the unilateral “disengagement” law from the Gaza Strip, in an effort to legitimize recolonization in the Palestinian territories.

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