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www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/05/netanyahu-suspends-israel-minister-nuke-gaza/

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has indefinitely suspended a far-Right minister from the cabinet after he raised the option of “nuking” Gaza.

The country’s heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu, a member of the far-Right Otzma Yehudit party, told a local radio station that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip “is one of the possibilities” the government is considering.

He added that those who raise the Palestinian or Hamas flag “shouldn’t continue living on the face of the earth”, and that “there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza”.

“Amichai Eliyahu’s words are detached from reality,” said the Mr Netanyahu’s office in an initial statement on social media on Sunday morning

The Israeli prime minister then added that Mr Eliyahu would be suspended from cabinet meetings indefinitely, although how meaningful that is while a separate war cabinet is running the country is unclear.