Israeli rabbi calls for genocide of all Palestinians in Gaza

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Israeli media
8 Mar 2024 18:15
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Rabbi Eliyahu Mali urges his students to kill and exterminate all Palestinians including infants, children, women, and the elderly in the Gaza Strip.

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali speaks to dozens of students during a lesson he gave on March 8, 2023, urging them to murder all Gazans, in the Shirat Moshe school, occupied Yafa, Palestine. (YouTube)

The mass killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip "is permissible according to the halakhic principles," the head of a Jewish religious school in occupied Yafa, Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, stated according to Israeli news website Ynet.

A recording of the extremist's answers to questions on the Gaza Strip was published a few hours ago on YouTube and is available for the public.

Halakha or Jewish Law, which also translates to "the way to behave or act," is held as divine law among Orthodox Jews such as Mali, who called for the extermination of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

When asked about what should be done to infants and the elderly, Mali simply answered, "The same."

Mali founded the religious school Shirat Moshe and has called upon his students to strictly follow the orders of the Israeli occupation forces, saying that if IOF soldiers do not kill Palestinians, then Palestinians will kill them. It is worth noting that Shirat Moshe students serve in the IOF, despite other schools of Orthodox Judaism refusing military service.

The extremist stressed that the main principle of the war on Gaza is that "no soul remains alive," urging Israelis to carry on the genocide against Palestinians.

His calls come as Israeli occupation forces murdered 30,878 Palestinians and wounded 72,402 in 154 days. Thousands of others remain missing, mostly killed and stuck under the rubble caused by Israeli bombs or left stranded all over the streets of the Gaza Strip, as occupation forces prevent emergency services from carrying out their missions.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza pointed out that 72% of the martyrs are children and women, with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) revealing that, on average, 63 women are killed in Gaza every day.

The Ministry stated that "Israel" has carried out eight massacres, resulting in the deaths of 78 Palestinians and the injury of 104 in 24 hours only. It further noted that numerous Palestinians are still trapped under the rubble, with the Israeli military obstructing medical and civil defense teams from accessing bombed sites to rescue survivors or retrieve bodies buried beneath the debris.

Calls to murder and ethnically cleanse Palestinians have not been limited to religious extremists but have been disseminated by top officials, ministers, opposition ministers, and Israeli troops.

Mali's calls are not inciting Israelis to future genocide of the Palestinian people, but they are reassuring them of the morality of the actions they are taking against the indigenous people of Palestine.