Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Far-right Israel i minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday said that it might be 'justified and moral' to cause two million Palestinian civilians to starve to death until Hamas returns Israel i hostages, drawing criticism from humanitarian groups. Human rights campaigners have demonstrated that Israel is limiting and delaying aid into the Gaza Strip, and even using starvation as a 'weapon of war.
' 'This vile rhetoric is just the tip of the iceberg,' he wrote on social media. 'Smotrich is a minister in a government that Western leaders claim shares their values.' Peace Now, an anti-occupation Israeli group, condemned Smotrich's remarks in several social media posts, expressing disbelief that a 'senior member of our government' would say such a thing and arguing that it would be 'justified' for the U.S. to sanction Smotrich.
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