Ministers and MKs from the right-wing coalition wrote to Defense Minister Israel Katz, demanding that he allow them to tour the northern perimeter of the Gaza Strip.
The letter, issued Wednesday, states that the purpose of the requested tour is to "explore settlement possibilities" in the northern perimeter of the Gaza Strip, an area in the northern part of Gaza they claim "is under full control of the Israel Defense Forces, empty of Gazans and has no extraordinary security restrictions."
Among the signatories are Likud ministers Miki Zohar, May Golan and Shlomo Karhi, and Otzma Yehudit ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir, Amichay Eliyahu and Yitzhak Wasserlauf.
The northern perimeter requested to be toured includes the location where, previous to the 2005 disengagement, the Nissanit, Elei Sinai and Dugit settlements were located.
In their letter to the defense minister, the right-wing lawmakers wrote that "the Gaza Strip is a pounding heart of the Land of Israel," and that preventing such a tour, without proper justification, could be perceived as "asserting a political stance and silencing the right-wing side of the political map."
