A large march and rally close to the Gaza border is being planned by the Nachala settlement movement for Independence Day on Wednesday, under the banner of “The People of Israel are Returning to Gaza.”

The event will see members of Nachala settlement cadres, created to establish new settlements in Gaza at a moment’s notice, march towards Gaza from Kibbutz Mefalsim, together with other activists, some bereaved families and discharged soldiers.

Similar events staged by Nachala in the past have resulted in efforts by some activists to break into Gaza and set up outposts there, although all such attempts have been thwarted by the IDF.

The latest such effort came in December 2025, when two of Nachala’s Gaza settlement cadres entered the strip and planted Israeli flags at the sites of the former settlements of Morag and Kfar Darom.

Last Wednesday, the heads of the Nachala organization, Daniella Weiss and Zvi Elimelech Sharbaf, conducted what they called “a tour of the northern part of the Gaza Strip,” and sent back a video of part of their tour. It is not clear if they actually managed to enter the territory or merely viewed it from near the border. They claimed to be just 200 meters from the former Israeli settlement of Elei Sinai, which was located in Gaza’s northern edge, on the border with Israel.

“We will bring a few caravans, we will march not [even] 10 minutes, 5 minutes, and here is the Elei Sinai settlement,” Weiss said excitedly in the video.

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