{"id":540325,"date":"2026-07-14T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:52:08","slug":"israeli-defence-minister-says-destruction-of-gaza-gives-him-good-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540325\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli defence minister says destruction of Gaza gives him &#8216;good feeling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Channel 14 said one of the most significant moments of the tour was Katz&#8217;s proposal to establish a permanent Jewish presence in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Katz said he intended to establish three Nahal outposts at sites that existed in northern Gaza before Israel&#8217;s 2005 withdrawal from the enclave.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Nahal outposts are military-linked settlement groups that have historically been used to establish new settlements before becoming civilian communities.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Katz claimed the move was necessary for \u201csecurity\u201d reasons, saying it would strengthen Israeli control and the \u201cdefence\u201d of nearby communities when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Israel has killed over 73,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded more than 173,000 others in its genocide in the blockaded enclave since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">It has reduced most of the enclave to ruins and displaced all of its population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Channel 14 said one of the most significant moments of the tour was Katz&#8217;s proposal to establish a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-540325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540325","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=540325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}