An ultra-Orthodox Israeli minister suggested using an atomic weapon in Gaza, the government should have denied it

2023-11-05 15:50:40

The Israeli Minister of Heritage, the far-right Amichai Eliyahu, maintained that the launching of an atomic bomb against the Gaza Strip could be one of the options in war that confronts Israel with the terrorist group Hamas.

The government quickly distanced itself from the comment and the Defense Minister openly called it irresponsible.

The minister of the Jewish Power party, the most far-right party in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, asked on the Radio Kol Berama radio program whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on the Palestinian enclave, answered: “That’s one of the possibilities.”

The statements of Eliyahu, known for his ultra positions, such as his proposal to annex the occupied West Bank territory to Israel, have forced Netanyahu to deauthorize it immediately. “Amichai Eliyahu’s words are far from reality,” said the ruler.

The Israeli Prime Minister insisted that the Army is acting “in accordance with the highest standards of international law to avoid harm to uninvolved people” and added that he will continue to do so until “victory is achieved.”

According to various sources, the Jewish State covertly developed nuclear weapons more than 50 years ago. Until now, it neither admits nor denies its possession and is the only country in the world that does not openly recognize it; but it is an open secret that it is a nuclear state and appears as such on the lists of atomic research institutions.

Israeli tanks in northern Gaza AFP

The current Israeli government consists of an alliance with a handful of minority far-right, nationalist and ultra-religious parties with a controversial agenda who manage to impose it due to the prime minister’s dependence on their support to avoid falling.

Part of this peculiar civil service, for example, is easing regulations for the ultra-Orthodox to arm themselves of the West Bank where there is growing tension with the Palestinians who live on their farms there.

“The proposal for a nuclear attack on Gaza reveals the precariousness of these individuals”, a diplomatic source in this country told this envoy. He added that “this is why support for the government has plummeted, both because of the failures that allowed the Hamas terrorist attack and because these irresponsibilities are already prevalent.”