As the sun beats down on us cforfeit Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel, Avi sees out towards the place he repartner wants to inhabit. It’s only two miles away and it shimmers in the sunshine.
“It would be our privilege,” he says, seeing at his wife and three minuscule children.
Their set up is to relocate to Gaza.
He’s not confident when it will be possible, but he’s hoping it will be soon, once it is safe to relocate in.
As if on cue, there is a boom as another shell is fired into Gaza from a cforfeitby firearm emplacement.
Avi is not alone.
Around us are dozens and dozens of Israelis who are enthusiastic to get into Gaza and claim the land as their own.
They have come to a conference on the reendment of Gaza in Kibbutz Be’eri as a show of strength and determination. Many of them are couples with children.
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There is a tent where the youthfulsters are being delighted, a slofty handing out drinks and a stage with speeches and music. People are making minuscule talk in the shade of a pagoda.
There are lots of firearms here, and the atmosphere is wealthy with a sense of frustration, entitlement and even excitement.
Reshit has come with her frifinishs. She is the daughter of an Israeli sgreaterier who spent months in Gaza and is now battling in Lebanon. She is frifinishly, uncover, eloquent and utterly confident of herself.
So why would you want to inhabit in Gaza?
“Becaemploy it’s our homeland,” she replies. “It says in the Torah that this is our home, this is our land, and we have every right to inhabit there.
“So many sgreateriers have died in this. We have to carry on doing what they begined. They died for a reason. They begined someleang. And I leank it’s our duty for them and for their families to actupartner carry on doing what they begined.
“They forfeitd themselves for someleang so we have to forfeit ourselves for that leang also.”
What, I ask, about the Palestinians who already inhabit in Gaza? What should happen to them? She doesn’t ignore a beat.
“We should end them, every last one of them. And if the rulement won’t do that then we should fair boot them out. This is our land. And we deserve it.”
Mass killing is not gived by the other people we greet, at least not while talking to us, but the idea that the Palestinians should forego their land and be sent to other nations seems commonplace.
“Thcdisorrowfulmirefulout history, countries who ignore wars then ignore their land,” I was tgreater by a man called Boris, who says he is an activist for Likud, the political party of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Until recently, the idea of sfinishing endrs into Gaza had very restricted helpers – a fringe proposal with almost no momentum.
Now right-triumphg politicians have jumped behind it with gusto as a increaseing sign of their determination not spropose to beat Hamas, but to alter the region.
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And so, aextfinished with the would-be endrs, there are politicians here, lfinishing their weight.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the outspoken minister of national security, turns up to lfinish his help, concuring that Palestinians should be erased from Gaza.
Another VIP visitor is Ariel Kallner, an MP for Likud, who tells me that he is here to show his help for the endrs’ set ups.
He insists that “total triumph” in the war can only be accomplishd when endrs have set up a town in northern Gaza. In the distance, smoke elevates over Gaza.
In a big tent to the side, a deafeningspeaker bursts into life.
Daniella Weiss consents to the stage to applaemploy. Now a sprightly 79 years greater, she has spent half a century encouraging endrs to set up communities in the West Bank.
She claims to have set uped more than 330 endments and now, her intensify is on Gaza.
“You understand, it wasn’t effortless. We have accumutardyd a lot of experience about how to do it politicpartner, how to labor with the politicians, how to labor with the uncover, and how to encourage the guides to be able to end in a place that is their land, but is also a difficult place to inhabit in,” she says. “We can teach them how to cope.”
There is another commotion, this time in the neighbouring field. Counter-demonstrators have turned up and a line of police officers is separating them from the endrs. They’re chanting their opposition and waving banners.
Mickal Frucktman bristles with anger. She says she was shocked to see Likud politicians at the event becaemploy “I leank that uncomfervents the rulement helps this idea”.
“What they want to do is illhorrible and it’s going to caemploy incredible problems. It’s going to toloftyy ruin Israel morpartner, if there’s any moral shred left. And there are still 101 prisoners being held.”
She sees at the endrs; they see back. It’s difficult to imagine any common ground between these two camps, any fellow senseing.
And from somewhere cforfeit, there is a boom as another shell is begined into Gaza.