Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday said that he will advance plans for the construction of new settlements in the West Bank following an attack near Jerusalem earlier in the day, the Times of Israel newspaper reported. The committee responsible for authorizing the construction of settler homes will meet in the coming days for this purpose, the Times reported. The decision to advance plans for more than 3,000 new housing units was made during a meeting Finance Minister Smotri
Two years of construction on Winchester and road closure on Columbus Road in Brooklin will mean traffic nightmares east-west from 2024-26, councillors fear.
The French Foreign Ministry has condemned statements from far-right members of Israel's government on the possible expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. "We call on Israel to refrain from such provocative statements, which are irresponsible and fuel tensions," it said in Paris on Wednesday. Forced resettlement of population groups is a serious violation of international law. "It is not up to the Israeli government to decide where Palestinians should live on their land," the ministry exp
A far-right Israeli minister is in favour of Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip after the war. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Israel's Army Radio on Sunday that if Israel does the right thing, there will be an exodus of Palestinians "and we will live in the Gaza Strip." "We will not allow a situation in which two million people live there. If there are 100,000 to 200,000 Arabs living in Gaza, the discussion about the day after will be completely different," Smotrich was quoted in a p