{"id":330095,"date":"2026-08-17T06:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330095"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:13:37","slug":"israeli-minister-calls-for-killing-30-to-40%e2%80%b2-palestinians-in-gaza-nightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330095","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister calls for killing \u201930 to 40\u2032 Palestinians in Gaza nightly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera and AP \u2013 Aug 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, says Israeli forces should \u201ckill 30 or 40\u201d people in Gaza every night and go beyond \u201cthose who pose a danger \u2026 at that particular moment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir made the comments to Rom Braslavski \u2013 a former Israeli captive held in Gaza as Israel waged a genocidal war on the territory after the Hamas-led attacks in October 2023 \u2013 in a podcast episode that surfaced on Sunday and was shared widely across Palestinian media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn\u2019t live. They\u2019re not even people,\u201d\u00a0Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The remarks are the latest in a long record of extreme statements<\/a> from Ben-Gvir, who sits in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government and controls Israel\u2019s police and prison services.<\/p>\n

The far-right minister has gained influence<\/a> in Israel as the country heads towards elections on October 27.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir told Braslavski that he disagreed with Netanyahu\u2019s decision to scale back military strikes in Gaza under the current \u201cceasefire\u201d<\/a>, arguing instead for renewed targeted assassinations that would go beyond people considered active threats.<\/p>\n

He has no formal authority over the military and cannot order strikes himself, though he sits on Israel\u2019s security cabinet, a group of senior ministers who help shape war and security policy.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir also promised Braslavski that he would seek to allow him to personally take part if prisoners are executed under Israel\u2019s recently enacted death penalty law for Palestinians<\/a> convicted in military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a personal request, and I am truly looking you in the eyes, minister. Let me be the one who hangs them,\u201d Braslavski told Ben-Gvir.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want a rope; I want a button on a gun. With my own hands, I will execute every terrorist in the state of Israel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir replied: \u201cI will turn the world upside down to make that happen. I promise you that I will do everything I can and turn the world upside down until it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the discussion, Ben-Gvir also called for Palestinians to be encouraged to leave Gaza permanently, alongside new Israeli settlement of the territory, telling Braslavski he saw \u201call of Gaza as ours\u201d, a comment he has repeated on many occasions.<\/p>\n

International lawyers have warned that mass, forced or engineered emigration of this kind could amount to ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,250 people in Gaza since the \u201cceasefire\u201d took hold in October, according to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir\u2019s comments fit a pattern stretching back decades, from his teenage involvement with the outlawed nationalist Kahanist movement.<\/p>\n

As minister, he has championed the death penalty as a default sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks<\/a>, and has boasted of deliberately worsening conditions in Israeli prisons holding Palestinian detainees.<\/p>\n

That record has drawn international criticism, but without serious consequence. He has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and some European Union states, but this has not had an effect on his actions.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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