Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu described dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip as “one of the options” to achieve the goal of eliminating the Hamas movement.

This came in a statement by Eliyahu, who belongs to the far-right Otzma Yehudit party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, to the Israeli Kol Barama radio on Sunday.

Eliyahu said: “The Israeli army is dealing a strong blow to Hamas,” and asked: “Is it 100% the way I want it? No. 60%? Maybe it is so,” when asked if he expected to drop “some atomic bomb tomorrow morning.” On Gaza, because in his opinion there are no “innocent people” there, he replied: “This is one way. The second way is to check what is important to them, and what will be the next deterrent for them.”

Eliyahu also expressed his objection to allowing any humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, and said: “We will not deliver humanitarian aid to the Nazis,” considering that “there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza.”

The far-right minister supported the idea of ​​“reclaiming” the Gaza Strip’s lands and rebuilding the settlements there, and when asked about the fate of the Palestinian residents, he said: “They can go to Ireland or the deserts, and the monsters in Gaza must find the solution themselves.”

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to disavow Eliyahu’s statement regarding the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, and said in a statement: “Amichai Eliyahu’s words are divorced from reality... Israel and the Israeli army act in accordance with the highest standards of international law in order to Prevent harm to uninvolved people, and we will continue to do so until victory.”

A number of countries and non-governmental organizations accused Israel of committing war crimes and genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced yesterday, Saturday, that the number of victims as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing since October 7 had risen to 9,572 dead, and more than 26 thousand wounded. More than two-thirds of them are children, women and the elderly.