The Nachala settlement movement said more than 700 of its activists established “a new community” in southern Israel overlooking Gaza City on Friday, and demanded the government move it into the north of the Strip, according to the Times of Israel.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi of the Likud party said in a video at the site that, “with God’s help”, the next right-wing government “will keep planting and putting down roots in every part of our fatherland”.