Israeli lawmakers’ inflammatory rhetoric mirrors parts of Israeli society pushing for Israeli settler-colonists to return to the Gaza Strip and even colonize Lebanon. Let it be known that you support the appeal to renew Jewish settlement throughout all of the Gaza Strip. A Longstanding AgendaIsrael occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967 during the Six-Day War and re-established the first settlement in 1970. In 1969, Israel attempted to send 60,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Paraguay with payment and the promise of citizenship. Feature photo | A family flees the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp with their belongings in the central Gaza Strip, on January 8, 2024.