Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has suggested using nuclear weapons against Gaza.
Minister without Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar has suggested annexing parts of Gaza.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel have separately advocated for resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza.
Gamliel’s ministry circulated a paper on expelling the population of Gaza into the Sinai desert.
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said that Israel is “rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”
Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu has threatened to hand over Gaza’s land to former Israeli settlers and current Israeli soldiers.
It’s really hard to understand the Israeli state’s explicit policy as anything other than ethnic cleansing, at the mildest—of killing enough Palestinians and making life sufficiently unbearable for the survivors that they have to flee.
