RAMALLAH, Sunday, November 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Arab League condemned today the extremist statements by Israeli Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, about shelling the Gaza Strip with a nuclear bomb.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia said not dismissing the minister from the government immediately and merely freezing his membership reflects the height of disdain for all human, moral, religious, and legal standards and values of the Israeli government.

Meanwhile, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered these statements a call for genocide and a hate crime that cannot be tolerated.

It reiterated that the statements are a condemnable incitement to murder and committing more war crimes against the people of the Gaza Strip.

Such statements represent a flagrant and unacceptable violation of international law and international humanitarian law, and a dangerous escalation that requires the international community to act immediately to address them, the statement said.

It stressed that the international community must confront hate speech through effective steps that would oblige Israel to stop its continuing attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

For his part, Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, said the statements reinforce the reality of the “racist view” of the Israelis towards the Palestinian people.

Aboul-Gheit added, in a post on the “X” platform, that these statements reveal the true face of the occupation government and everyone who defends it in the West.

Earlier in the day, Eliyahu, a hard-right Israeli minister from the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, called for dropping an atomic bomb on the Gaza Strip.

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