{"id":29577,"date":"2023-11-02T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29577"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:27:52","slug":"israeli-mp-says-it-clearly-for-world-to-hear-erase-all-of-gaza-from-the-face-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/israeli-mp-says-it-clearly-for-world-to-hear-erase-all-of-gaza-from-the-face-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli MP Says It Clearly for World to Hear: ‘Erase All of Gaza From the Face of the Earth’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Galit Distel Atbaryan, a member of the Israeli Knesset for the ruling Likud Party, is seen holding an Israeli flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Galit Distel Atbaryan\/Facebook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Still questioning a genocidal intent?” asked one human rights campaigner.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 01, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Israeli lawmaker from the ruling right-wing Likud Party on Wednesday offered fresh evidence that the Israeli government’s aim in its bombardment of Gaza is a genocidal effort to kill or forcibly remove the more than 2 million Palestinians living there, declaring, “Gaza should be erased.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the support of the United States and other Western countries, Israel has claimed since October 7\u2014when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, killing as many as 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostage\u2014that its bombardment of Gaza is necessary to destroy the armed group, even though the IDF has repeatedly struck civilian targets and killed nearly 9,000 Palestinians so far, including over 3,500 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After screening a 45-minute montage of footage taken by Hamas fighters’ body cameras during the October 7 attack, Knesset member and former Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distal Atbaryan posted<\/a> on Facebook that Israeli officials must invest all their energy “in one thing: erasing all of Gaza from the face of the Earth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That the brave monsters will fly to the southern fence and enter Egyptian territory,” Atbaryan continued, an apparent reference to Israel’s reported plan <\/a>to permanently expel Palestinians who survive the assault to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, imposing a “second Nakba” on the population. “Or let them die… Gaza needs to be wiped out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Revengeful and vicious IDF is required here,” she continued. “Anything less than that is immoral.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atbaryan’s post signified “genocidal intent, clearly expressed,” said author and former Irish Times<\/em> environmental editor Frank McDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genocidal intent, clearly expressed: Galit Distel Atbaryan, Israeli minister for "public diplomacy" (ie propaganda) and member of @netanyahu<\/a>'s Likud party, has explicitly called for the @IDF<\/a> to be \u201cvengeful and cruel\u201d and to \u201cerase Gaza from the face of the earth\u201d … https:\/\/t.co\/SskoIHTg3o<\/a><\/p>— Frank McDonald (@frankmcdonald60) November 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>