'Cashing in on Genocide': Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate in Leveled Gaza
"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank.
"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli Firm Pitches Beachfront Real Estate In Leveled Gaza
THURSDAY, DEC 21, 2023 - 07:00 PM
Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams,
Palestinians and their supporters this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to
build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza.
"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement
published by Harey Zahav—an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank—that
drew international attention following
last week's Practical Preparation for Gaza Settlement Conference in Tel Aviv.
The ad depicts an
artist's rendering of luxury homes superimposed over an actual photograph of a Gaza neighborhood destroyed by Israeli attacks—which have killed nearly 20,000 people while displacing over 85% of the embattled strip's 2.3 million people since early October.
While the Israeli government funds settler organizations, Harey Zahav's proposal is
not believed to be state-supported. However, critics noted that Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel has
drafted a plan to forcibly expel Gazans into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and that a separate proposal by the right-wing think tank Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy declared that "there is currently a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip."
Such plans have been compared with the Nakba ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Arabs—by deadly violence and forced displacement—from Palestine during the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
"An Israeli real estate firm is already cashing in on genocide, churning out blueprints to build Israeli homes in Gaza on land leveled by bombs," activist Sarah Wilkinson
said Tuesday on social media.
Harey Zahav's proposal comes amid statements by Israeli political and military leaders that critics say incite or advocate genocide of Palestinians. Evem prior to the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, numerous Israeli officials
called for the recolonization of a Gaza Strip from which some or all of the Palestinian residents—around two-thirds of them the descendants of Nakba refugees—have been removed.
PS. Just for you franky! By the way climate change aka global warming or climate change science is fraudulent ! Hope you will be eating bugs and live In a carbon allowance with lots of restrictions on your travelling to Gaza or to West Bank .