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‘Burn Gaza now, nothing less': Israeli deputy Knesset speaker

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  • 18 Nov 2023 16:35
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Nissim Vaturi believes that "Israel" has been "too humane" after the war cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave in to international pressure to allow aid into Gaza, as he put it.

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  • Israeli flags put up on destroyed residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern occupied Palestine, November 18, 2023 (AP)
    Israeli flags put up on destroyed residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern occupied Palestine, November 18, 2023 (AP)

Deputy speaker of the Knesset and member of the legislature's foreign affairs and security committee, Nissim Vaturi, explicitly called for completely burning down Gaza and underlined that "Israel" must refrain from allowing aid into the Strip until all captives are released. 

Vaturi said he believes that "Israel" has been "too humane" after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet gave in to international pressure to allow the entry of two trucks of fuel daily into Gaza.

After over a month of a total Israeli ban on the entry of fuel into Gaza, subsequently causing a collapse in the health sector among other survival requirements for 2.2 million Palestinians, the Israeli occupation allowed the entry of fuel into Gaza three days ago but prohibited its delivery to hospitals.

The first truck carrying the energy commodity entered the Strip on Wednesday coming from Egypt, UN officials confirmed.

"All of this preoccupation with whether or not there is internet in Gaza shows that we have learned nothing. We are too humane. Burn Gaza now, nothing less!" Vaturi wrote in a post on X.

לא להכניס דלק, לא להכניס מים עד שהחטופים חוזרים!

— ניסים ואטוריNissim Vaturi🇮🇱 (@nissimv) November 17, 2023

"Don’t allow fuel in, don’t allow water in until the hostages are returned back!" he added.

"We are too humane. Burn Gaza now, no less!"

- Deputy speaker of Israel's Parliament pic.twitter.com/H5AMrBk8xD

— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) November 17, 2023

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The post to call for completely burning down Gaza has since been removed, though the call for blocking the entry of aid into Gaza is still up.

This comes as another Knesset member, "Israel’s" so-called heritage minister, Amichai Eliyahu, claimed that "one of the possibilities" was dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. 

'A brazen breach'

According to the director of the UN relief agency in Gaza (UNRWA), 24,000 liters (approximately 6,340 gallons) of diesel fuel arrived in Gaza today - half a tanker's load - which barely scratches the surface of the 2.2 million population's survival needs.

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Andrea De Domenico, Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, stated on Monday that the UN team lacks the required fuel for trucks and forklifts essential in unloading and delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza.

He added that the humanitarian pauses declared by "Israel" were carried out solely by the IOF, primarily as a means to evacuate the Northern area under relatively safe conditions.

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, emphasized yesterday that preventing supplies needed for safe water violates international humanitarian and human rights law.

"Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related to the lack of safe drinking water," Arrojo-Agudo said.

He warned that the impact on public health and hygiene in Gaza would be "unimaginable" and could result in more civilian deaths than the already significant toll from the bombardment. He stressed the need for urgent action to prevent a crisis, particularly affecting children, especially those under five years old and women.

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