The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the statement of the Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu Who seemed to be open to the idea of Israel launching a nuclear strike on Gaza raises many questions, including questions about its presence in the country.
The Israeli Prime Minister was arrested Benjamin NetanyahuAnd – last Sunday – the Minister of Heritage, who belongs to a far-right party in the coalition government, abstained from government meetings “until further notice.”
When he was asked – in a radio interview about a hypothetical nuclear option – Eliyahu answered, “This is one of the means.”
He added that he supports bombing the Gaza Strip with a nuclear bomb, considering that the killing of Israeli prisoners held by the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Part of the price of war.
Denouncing reactions to the Israeli minister’s statements continued from all over the Arab and international world, and sparked a scandal for the main Israeli broadcast stations, which an American official considered “unacceptable” and the German Foreign Minister also condemned.
The Arab Parliament also condemned the statementsLeague of Arab States AndOrganization of Islamic Cooperation Which considered that “this reflects the rhetoric of extremism, hatred, incitement to violence, organized terrorism, and the crime of genocide committed daily by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.”
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry also considered Eliyahu’s statements to reflect “an intention to commit ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians.”
It is mentioned that Euro-Mediterranean Observatory For Human Rights, he said that Israel dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip as part of its ongoing large-scale war since October 7, which is equivalent to a 30-kiloton nuclear bomb.
It should be noted that the nuclear bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II in August 1945 was estimated to contain about 15 thousand tons of explosives.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza counted more than 10,000 martyrs since the beginning of the Israeli aggression, and confirmed that 70% of the victims of the aggression were women and children, while the number of casualties exceeded 20,000.