Eliyahu previously spoke about the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu reiterated his call for the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, criticizing the position of the international community that rejects “voluntary immigration” and re-settlement in the Gaza Strip.
During an interview with the Times of Israel newspaper, Eliyahu said that the world can accommodate millions of refugees, but it does not allow the residents of Gaza to move from one place to another and “liberate them from the war and the rule of Hamas.”
Regarding the re-settlement in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli minister said that where there are settlements, there will be security.
He added that US President Joe Biden is making a "very grave mistake" by talking about a two-state solution, stressing that the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel will lead to a Holocaust, as he described it.
Eliyahu sparked widespread controversy when he spoke early last November about the possibility of dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza, as he believed that “there is no innocent” there.
Ministers in the Israeli government - most notably Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich - had called for the displacement of the residents of Gaza and the return of Jewish settlers to the Strip.
Ben Gvir and Smotrich participated in the “Return to Gaza” conference, which was organized by settlement associations and right-wing parties in occupied Jerusalem at the end of last January.
The Minister of Security has repeatedly said that he has a plan aimed at “encouraging Gazans to voluntarily migrate to other countries around the world” by offering financial incentives.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that the settlers' conference reveals the intentions of the "crime of displacement and ethnic cleansing" against the Palestinians, and represents a disregard for the recent decisions of the International Court of Justice.
Source: Al Jazeera + Israeli press