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Israel 'wiping out' Gaza to make way for settlements: Extremist minister

Iran Press TV

Friday, 25 July 2025 7:38 AM

An extreme-right Israeli minister has openly admitted that the regime is ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to make way for settlements.

Israel's so-called heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu made the brazen remarks in a radio interview on Thursday, sparking widespread condemnations.

Israel's ruling regime "is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out," he said. "Thank God, we are wiping out" the Palestinian territory and "pushing this population".

He also noted that Gaza will be cleared for Israeli settlement, adding, "All Gaza will be Jewish."

He further said that the Arabs, who are loyal to the occupying regime, may remain in the Gaza Strip.

Eliyahu, a member of the racist Jewish Power party, also denied reports of mass starvation in Gaza caused by an inhumane Israeli siege on in the territory.

"There's no hunger in Gaza," he claimed. "But we don't need to be concerned with hunger in the Strip. Let the world worry about it."

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid denounced Eliyahu's comments as "a moral attack and a propaganda disaster."

Israel is led by an "extremist minority" cabinet, whose ministers "sanctify blood and death," he said.

Israeli lawmaker Efrat Rayten called on Netanyahu's cabinet to issue an "unequivocal condemnation" of Eliyahu's "abhorrent and repugnant" remarks.

"A sitting minister is openly calling for serious war crimes. He's not an opposition figure, not a private citizen, not a social media pundit. He is a central cog in the executive branch. Eliyahu is a dangerous man," she said.

The Israeli protest group Brothers and Sisters in Arms also said the usurping entity is being run by "extremist ideologues" like Eliyahu who has "no morality, no purity of arms, [and] no shame."

In November 2023, Eliyahu said that dropping a nuclear weapon on Gaza was "one of the possibilities" in Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.

The minister's remarks were entered as evidence of intent in the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

In addition to the genocide case, the International Criminal Court (ICC), also located in The Hague, issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime's intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The Tel Aviv regime has so far failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives in Gaza, despite killing 59,586 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 143,498 others.