TEHRAN- Far-right Zionist ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet and members of the Knesset (parliament) linked to his Likud party attended a conference calling for settlements to return to the Gaza Strip along with the migration of the Palestinian population from the enclave. 

Some 1,000 people, including eleven cabinet ministers and 15 members of the Knesset, some of them members of Netanyahu's Likud party attended the controversial event in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem). 

Among the keynote speakers, who voiced their rhetoric, were well-known extremist settlers such as Netanyahu’s security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich. 

The attendance of government and parliamentary figures and their rhetoric at the conference is a clear violation of last week’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling which ruled the Israeli regime must "take all measures within its power" to avoid acts of genocide in its war on Gaza, including the "prevention and punishment of genocidal rhetoric". 

Both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich called for the establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and north of the occupied West Bank, with Palestinians migrating elsewhere. 

"In the past four months, we have had more casualties than we have had in the past four decades," says Deputy Surgeon General of the Israeli Medical Corps. Prominent and influential rabbis, settlement leaders and other participants were shown maps and detailed preparations for the expansion of settler occupation to areas that are considered by the United Nations as part of the future of a possible Palestinian state. 

Ben-Gvir told the conference, “We must encourage voluntary migration. Let them leave. Part of correcting the mistake of the sin of the preconception that brought us to 7 October is to return home to southern Gaza and the northern West Bank." 

He added, "We have to return home, because that is the Torah, that is morality, that is historic justice, that is logic and that is the right thing." 

Smotrich reiterated his support for bringing back the death sentence for Palestinian prisoners, while other speakers included Rabbi Uzi Sharbag, the former leader of the Israeli terrorist group Jewish Underground. 

Shlomo Karhi, the Likud communications minister; Orit Strook, a member of the far-right Religious Zionist party and the minister of settlements and national missions; Yitzhak Goldknopf, the leader of the Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and the housing minister; and Likud member of the Knesset Haim Katz were other members of the coalition government who attended the event. 

Outside the conference hall shirts reading: "Gaza is part of the land of Israel" were being distributed in yet another violation of the UN Convention on Genocide. 

Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war on Gaza with "plausible" genocidal intent, despite Israeli soldiers suffering mass casualties. 

A report by the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday citing a senior Israeli army medical official said the number of troops suffering severe injuries in Gaza is twice as high as in the occupation’s last major conflict. 

Israeli soldiers are losing limbs and sustaining life-changing eye and facial injuries as a result of the "military-graded" explosives used by Hamas on the battlefield, according to Avi Banov, the Deputy Surgeon General of the Israeli Medical Corps. 

"In the past four months, we have had more casualties than we have had in the past four decades," Banov said. 

Abu Hamza, the spokesman for the al-Quds brigades (the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad), vowed that "Netanyahu’s threats to continue the war will be of no use," stressing that the Israeli captives will not return except by a decision from the resistance. 

Earlier the Palestinian resistance announced that they were engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the two directions that the regime's ground forces are trying to advance in the enclave. 

The resistance in Gaza has issued a statement saying, "We bombarded enemy soldiers and vehicles with mortar shells in the direction of their advance, east of Bureij camp".
The armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam brigades, said it targeted another "Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, west of the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip". 

This follows reports that Hamas has resumed its governance and power in the northern Gaza Strip, running the day-to-day affairs of the region, which has been largely reduced to rubble by the regime after the Israeli military was forced to withdraw under Palestinian fire. 

On Wednesday, the Israeli military announced the names of another three troops killed while fighting in Gaza. 

The number of Israeli troops killed since the start of the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip now stands at 223, according to the regime's military, raising the number of troops killed since October 7 to 560. 

Experts say the number of Israeli military death toll is higher, especially considering the ratio of casualties to fatalities. 

More than 4,000 troops have been disabled for life, according to Israeli media, while thousands of others have sustained serious, moderate and mild injuries.