Illustrative image. Source the Israeli Air Force.
Israel’s far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on November 5 that one of Israel’s options against the Hamas Movement was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.
Asked in an interview with Radio Kol Berama whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on the enclave, the minister, who is a member of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, said that “this is one of the possibilities.”
Eliyahu’s remarks came as the Israeli military is conducting an unprecedented operation in Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack, which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Israeli. More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of an operation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly disavows Eliyahu’s contention that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip is a possibility.
“Amichai Eliyahu’s words are detached from reality,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “Israel and the IDF are acting in accordance with the highest standards of international law in order to prevent harm to uninvolved people, and we will continue to do that all the way to victory.”
Meanwhile, opposition Leader Yair Lapid lambastes said Eliyahu’s remarks “a horrifying and insane remark by an irresponsible minister,” and called on Netanyahu to fire him immediately.
“He offended the families of the [241 Gaza] captives, offended Israeli society and harmed our international standing,” Lapid said. “The presence of the extremists in the government endangers us and the success of the war goals — defeating Hamas and returning the hostages.”
It is believed that Israel had possessed an operational nuclear weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War.
Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400. It is unknown if Israel’s reported thermonuclear weapons are in the megaton range. Israel is also reported to possess a wide range of different systems, including neutron bombs, tactical nuclear weapons and suitcase nukes. The Negev Nuclear Research Center is reportedly the heart of the country’s nuclear program.
While the use of nuclear weapons against Gaza is certainly not a possibility, Israel’s heavy strikes on the Strip have been causing destruction comparable to the effects of weapons of mass destruction.
Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since the start of the war, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a press release issued on November 2.
In addition, reports in Arab media warned that Israel could use chemical weapons, including nerve agents, in Gaza in order to clear Hamas tunnel network.
Overall, Eliyahu’s remarks show how extremists in Israel have been becoming more vocal and influential since Netanyahu returned to lead the government last year. Under Netanyahi’s leadership, Israel completely abandoned peace efforts and cracked down on Palestinains which directly led to the war taking place in Gaza right now.
“israel and the idf are acting in accordance with the highest standards of international law in order to prevent harm to uninvolved people…”
the whole world saw that the idf bombed civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, killing non combatant men, women and kids…
the zionazis are in denial, detached from reality and have completely lost the plot.
the zionazis, i.e. the far right israel government, are not in denial nor have lost the plot. the netanyahou far right government knows exactly what it is doing and have even said it with their program to move gazians to the sanai in egypt. they know israel is committing ethnic cleansing/ genocide. anything else israel says; like “in accordance with international law” is a deliberate lie for the jewish run western media.
funny, they are the first to scream, anti-simitism and remind the world of what happened to the jewish people in the forties. yet, israel has minimal simitic dna and the most anti-simitic race on earth are the ashkenazis owing to their treatment of the biblical jewish culture.
very well said, am.
did the same in iraq and syria, under the guise of nato. funny, how they accuse others of their own actions. remind me, but, why was israel created, post wwii and not when the concept of it all began?
blaming the opposition for what you are doing is one of the tenants of goebells nazi propaganda psyops
shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom. did you all have a good shabbat?
did you all have a good life? or too beaten down? unfortunately the worst isn’t over
nuking gaza is merely a distraction from israels ongoing land grab. this expresses a blood lust for arabs in general and their growing incompatibility with with the ordinary standards of human existence. they are rapidly nearing the point of becoming self destructive with the crude bloodthirsty arrogance of zionism
leviathon basin and all the riches that lie beneath it, starting with the golan heights. genie energy, when did they set up company and who runs genie energy, besides larry summers, murdoch and jacob r****child?
there are folks all over the place with their masks falling off.
all of them cheering genocide
how is israhell different from nazi germany????????
israel is far worse.
run by the same crowd. the national socialists and national communists were devised by rockerfeller and his mates in the city of london. we have all been played. fed reserve launched 1913, own by a private consortium and not the us government. move onto balfour declaration and then you have world war 1 and how many empires collapsed between 1917 and 1919?
the great war began in 1914, three years before the balfour declaration.
and why is that do you wonder? looks like we all been taugh fake ass history.
the nazis did not own most news outlets and the cultural influence powerhouse hollywood to make people in the entire world support and envy them.
that is right.
they get a lot of support.
and they don’t have to deal with very powerful opponents.
besides, they have nukes.
so there is a bit of difference.
these foaming at the snout khazar beast$, from the genocidal nut’nyahoo to this talmud spewing serpent, are foul monsters dredged from the darkest pit of the zionazi vortex. these warmongering babylonian demons, poisoned from their hollow cost delusions, will wreak havoc for all humanity until the evil anglozionazi empire of depravity is finally gutted. will 6 million dead palestinians suffice to gorge the beast? not even 6 billion dead would satiate these chosenite thugs.
so if netanyahu says those remarks are detached from reality, then why does israel refuse to admit they have nukes. why do they have nukes at all? where did they ever plan to use them? did he think they would be a deterent and give them the power to intimidate at will? above all where did they obtain this capacity to threaten the planet? any guesses?
france let them pick up the knowledge from their tests
“then why does israel refuse to admit they have nukes.”
…probably because they don’t have nuclear weapons at all!!!!
simple because international law doesn’t recognize israel as a state. and as
a non-state you cannot have nukes. the crimes have many layers to them like rotten onions. but here you have a belligerent occupying-power with nukes. in other words a non state actor committing genocide and supports other terrorist non state actors in the region with nukes. which amounts to nothing more than a terrorist state ran by the global masonic bankster cabal
…with nukes!!!!
is that why those zionist thugs sent mordechai vanunu to prison for 17 years? he exposed it.
you are an uninformed dope to even make that remark
the obtained them from the us. many nuclear ‘pits’ were discovered missing, as well as fissionable material. if they are ever used, their origin will be discernible. all nuclear material can be traced.
denmark invented senility most income tax on earth and space ships
sooner or later jens had to get something right, and how!
“israel and the idf are acting in accordance with the highest standards of international law” and elves and fairies are real and a frog can turn into a prince…
which brings us to disney and how do they link into it all?
let them try this nuke . and zionist will regret of thier life . every country on the earth will get the nuke power . if us and zionist did one mistake of using them even in thier last leg. of survival
suicidal zionists at it again.
they don’t mind nuking the holy land, those rats will just go home to florida for the next 500 thousand years.
god chose the land, zionists nuke it, and then go pray to their golden calf.
čistý blázon!!! to si myslí, že by to izraelu len tak prešlo? to asi len veľmi ťažko!!! to by ich potom už ani usa nedokázali ochrániť.
well there it is! willing to use nuclear weapons has been warned about in the conflicts that plague us. from the insane lindsey graham ranting as a nuclear crusader to amichai eliyahu doing the same one wonders about the mental stability of these two and those they speak for. this must end and end now!!!!
“don’t panic! don’t panic!!”
one can only marvel at how easily that other ‘n’ word produces the desired reaction. th*m*s h*bb*s will be having a well deserved chuckle at the gross gullibility of the plebiscite.
(*) to avoid the mod, hopefully…
it shows how unhinged these maniacs are.
this is why iran should get its nooks asap , mutually assured destruction will make the tiny, welfare funded, banana republic of israel think twice about genocide and mass destruction.
israel is so small that it can be decimated with ballistic missiles alone. this is the only reason iran hasn’t been bombed or invaded.
if iran attacks israel with conventional weapons israel will use its nukes. if iran has its own then israel won’t.
that’s very optimistic.
the muslims also have some very unhinged individuals. so if they come to power, mutually assured destruction won’t stop them.
radioactive oatmeal made me lgbt and senile in 1972
put it simple. in another words, we are loosing all over and i can’t stand it no more.
the rest of the world, nuking israhell is an option