More than 5,000 soldiers in reserve service and civilians have signed a petition calling on the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs not to allow the return of Gaza residents to the northern Gaza Strip.
Major (res.) Gilad But of the "Reserves to Victory" organization said: "After over three months of fighting in enemy territory, we will not allow a return to what was here before October 7. This Thursday we will hold a victory rally in front of the Government Kiryat in Jerusalem and call on the government To exact a heavy price from Hamas, one that will set an example for all our enemies, what is the price of the massacre of the Jews. Our struggle is for the security of future generations."
Reservists in Gaza, photo: IDF spokesman
"We are done being silent"
The petition is an initiative that came to fruition after many photos of Gaza residents returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza Strip were published in recent days, with the encouragement of Hamas.
The reservists who took part in the occupation of the northern Gaza Strip, and other concerned citizens, signed a call to the heads of state to prevent this.
"We, a group of reservists, of the residents of the Otaf and of the citizens of the State of Israel, have decided that we are done being silent. Our families and friends were brutally raped, murdered and kidnapped. We ourselves threw our lives away, broke into the land of terror and paid with the blood of our friends and brothers to eradicate evil and say 'never again' ' - and not so that the government sacrifices our victim on the altar of inclusion, surrendering to pressures and the 'conception', which everyone admits to its bloody failure," the petition reads.
Gaza residents are moving back towards the north of the Gaza Strip, photo: AFP
It goes on to say: "After more than a hundred days of fighting, and after the terrible massacre that the Gazan population and Hamas perpetrated on us, we will not allow a situation in which the Israeli government returns the Gazans to their homes as if nothing had happened and resettles them again just a few kilometers away from the settlements where we raise our families and plow our fields. The residents of Gaza will not return to their homes and terrorist camps as if this is another round after which the situation will return to normal."
The petition demands that the government perform three actions, if it wants to regain the trust of its citizens and fighters: "Taking a significant area from the Gaza Strip forever, as an example to all our enemies of what the price of the massacre of Jews is; a clear plan for immigration from Gaza; and unprecedented punishment for the perpetrators of the massacre."
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