He had hinted at dropping ‘some kind of atomic bomb’ on the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM: An Israeli minister was suspended from government meetings “until further notice” today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, after suggesting in an interview dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Heritage minister Amichay Eliyahu, an ultranationalist politician part of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, told Israel’s Kol Barama radio he was not entirely satisfied with the scale of Israel’s retaliation in the Palestinian territory after Hamas fighters carried out a deadly attack on Oct 7 inside southern Israel.Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since Oct 7 has killed 9,488 people, most of them women and children, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
When the interviewer asked whether the Israeli minister advocated dropping “some kind of atomic bomb” on the Gaza Strip “to kill everyone”, Eliyahu replied: “That’s one option”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quickly responded to the minister’s remarks, issuing a statement in which it described them as “disconnected from reality”, adding that Israel was trying to spare “non-combatants” in Gaza.
Following the outcry over his remarks Eliyahu later said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that his statement about the atomic bomb was “metaphorical”.Subscribe to our newsletter and get news delivered to your mailbox.
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