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Itamar Ben-Gvir says Israel should kill '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly

newsAug 17, 2026573,406

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told former hostage Rom Braslavski on Braslavski’s podcast that Israel should carry out “targeted assassinations” in Gaza, “taking down 30 to 40 every night,” and said “there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.” Ben-Gvir criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent drawdown of strikes in Gaza and also advocated mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza and resettlement of the territory by Israel, a proposal international lawyers say could amount to ethnic cleansing. Ben-Gvir does not control the military and cannot order strikes, but he runs Israel’s prisons and the national police, and his prison policies prompted a 2025 Israeli top court ruling that the service deprived Palestinian detainees of a minimum subsistence diet. The comments were widely shared by Palestinian media and come as once-fringe ideologies like Ben-Gvir’s have gained traction ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections. Similar statements by Ben-Gvir and other officials have been presented to the United Nations world court as evidence of genocidal intent; Israel denies it has committed genocide in Gaza. Since an October truce deal took effect, Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have killed over 1,250 people while the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

Al Jazeera English
@aljazeera.com

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of dozens of people who he says are ‘not worthy of life’. It’s the latest in a series of attempts at making life unbearably harsh for Palestinians.

40145d ago
Shipwreck
@shipwreck75.bsky.social

How this man is allowed to freely move about is beyond me, disgusting human: Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for nightly "targeted assassinations" in Gaza: "They're not even people." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

48744d ago
Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Israel should be killing “30 to 40” people each night in Gaza and should build Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave, the country’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, stated during an interview on a podcast hosted by Rom Braslavski.

26945d ago
Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social

People often try to say that he isn't representative of the government, but Ben-Gvir is the national security minister. www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-...

21345d ago
Henry Mance
@henrymance.ft.com

"Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live . . . They are not even people.” as.ft.com/r/24f6ccb3-2...

13745d ago
Resist 🕎🍉
@antizionistjew.bsky.social

sraeli far-right National Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of 30–40 people who he says are "not worthy of life" Israeli Prof. Leibowitz was right - They're Judeo-Nazis!

10844d ago
Simon Rosenberg
@simonrosenberg.bsky.social

“'There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,' Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza." The face of Israel. Yet still the Australian govt provides arms and diplo cover for the #GazaGenocide. #auspol

7845d ago
Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

Israel's national security minister has called for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, ahead of depopulation.

5145d ago
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