Israelis aiming to re-establish illegal settlements set up tents near Gaza

Israeli settlers have held a conference near the border with Gaza, with the Israeli army allowing them to set up tents for the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

Haaretz reported that the "Preparing to resettle Gaza" conference, organised by the Nachala Settlement Movement which establishes illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, set up 50 sukkah tents and were set to sleep in them on Sunday night. 

The tents were set up in a closed military area near Kibbutz Be'eri.

Nachala said last week that the conference was "planned not only as a theoretical conference, but as a practical exercise and practical preparation for resettlement in Gaza."

"The return to settlement in Gaza is no longer an idea, but a move that is currently in an advanced stage with the support of the government and the public," it added.