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Israel 'racing' to wipe out Gaza, heritage minister says
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said on Thursday that the government is “racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out”, as daily air strikes continue to kill dozens of Palestinians.</p>
<p>“Thank God, we are wiping out this evil,” he said during an interview with Haredi radio station Kol Barama.</p>
<p>“All Gaza will be Jewish,” he added. </p>
<p>Eliyahu, a member of the far-right Jewish Power party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, also said that “there is no hunger in Gaza".</p>
<p>“But we don’t need to be concerned with hunger in the strip,” he continued. “Let the world worry about it.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-100-groups-sound-alarm-colleagues-starvation-gaza" target="_blank">Over 100 humanitarian agencies signed a letter </a>on Wednesday sounding the alarm over Israel-imposed starvation in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/gaza-under-attack" target="_blank">Gaza</a>, where at least 45 Palestinians have died from malnutrition over the past week, according to the Palestinian health ministry. </p>
<p>Eliyahu’s comments drew immediate criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>, Yechiel Leiter, who urged the minister to retract his statement during a tense private phone call, according to the Jerusalem Post. </p>
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