{"id":200016,"date":"2025-12-23T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:52:13","slug":"israel-will-not-fully-withdraw-from-gaza-or-syria-minister-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200016\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel will not fully withdraw from Gaza or Syria: minister-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/202512232f15ebb96ff34d0e87e9977d9beec720_CcrbeeE000018_20251223_CBMFN0A001.JPG\"\/>Displaced Palestinians are pictured in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israel would never fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip or from Syria, and vowed to establish new settlements in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a public ceremony in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, Katz said Israel would establish in northern Gaza Nahal settlement groups, military-backed settlement nuclei from which larger civilian settlements are developed. He said the move would take place &#8220;in the right way, at the right time,&#8221; without specifying a date.<\/p>\n<p>Katz said the new settlements would be built &#8220;in place of&#8221; settlements evacuated as part of Israel&#8217;s 2005 withdrawal from the coastal enclave, known as the disengagement plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deep inside Gaza and will never leave all of Gaza &#8212; there will be no such thing,&#8221; Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, Israel has continued near-daily attacks in Gaza and the demolition of buildings in areas where its troops remain deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Israeli plans in Syria, Katz dismissed U.S.-brokered diplomatic efforts to reach an arrangement between Israel and Syria. &#8220;We don&#8217;t trust anyone &#8230; no agreement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will not withdraw even by a millimeter in Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israel moved into the buffer zone in southwestern Syria in December 2024 and later took control of the peak of Mount Hermon.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Displaced Palestinians are pictured in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,85,46,5699,43,15796,2519],"class_list":["post-200016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jt","tag-news","tag-withdrawal","tag-wn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}