Ben-Gvir, one of the most hardline members of Netanyahu’s coalition, made the remarks in a podcast over the weekend.
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for Israeli forces to kill “30 to 40″ people in Gaza every night, saying Palestinians in the territory were “not even humans”.
Ben-Gvir, one of the most hardline members of Netanyahu’s coalition, made the remarks in a podcast with former Gaza hostage Rom Braslavski, published over the weekend.
‘Kill 30 or 40 every night’
“I think targeted eliminations should be carried out in Gaza every night — take out 30, 40,” Ben-Gvir said.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:
I think targeted eliminations should be carried out in Gaza every night — take out 30, 40. Not only those who endanger you at that particular moment.
There are people there who shouldn’t be alive. They shouldn’t live.
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He said the killings should not be limited to people who posed an immediate threat.
“Not only those who endanger you right now. These are people who shouldn’t be alive. I’m paying them a compliment by calling them humans,” the Israeli minister said.
During the podcast, Ben-Gvir also said he wanted Israel to establish settlements throughout Gaza and encourage Palestinians to leave the territory.
“I see all of Gaza as ours,” he said, adding that he wanted to see “as much emigration as possible” of Palestinians and Israeli settlements across the territory.
“Settlements not just in Gush Katif but throughout Gaza, encouraging as much emigration as possible, sending them to their countries. And for the terrorists, no emigration, nothing, just to kill them one by one,” Ben-Gvir added.
Talks over Gaza future
Ben-Gvir’s comments came as US Middle East envoy Jared Kushner held an hours-long meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, days after Netanyahu publicly rejected the latest part of a US plan aimed at ending the devastating Gaza war. Under the proposal, Hamas would disarm while Israel would begin a phased withdrawal from much of the Gaza Strip.
According to an Israeli official familiar with the meeting, Netanyahu and Kushner agreed that an American general would oversee the verification of Hamas’s disarmament, while Netanyahu insisted there would be no Israeli withdrawal from Gaza until the process was completed.
