Extremist Israeli politicians and right-wing settlers held a conference in Israel's parliament on Tuesday where they said the US had given them the "green light" to transform the besieged Gaza Strip into a "resort town" once they had completed the ethnic cleansing of more than two million Palestinians.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel had received a "green light from the president of the United States to turn Gaza into a prosperous strip, a resort town with employment".
"We will occupy Gaza and make it an inseparable part of Israel," Smotrich told a few dozen attendees at the event titled "The Gaza Riviera - From Vision to Reality".
Smotrich, who also serves as a minister in the defence ministry, said that "a proposed plan to relocate Gazans [Palestinians] to other countries will serve as a means of facilitating the settlement of the strip".
He also said that he backed the idea of a "security annexation" of northern Gaza, claiming that the Israeli military's chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, supported the idea.
