Israeli politician calls for 'Doomsday' missiles to be dropped on Hamas and Gaza

11 October 2023 , 13:23

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The destruction following an Israeli air strike in Gaza (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

One Israeli politician has chillingly called for "doomsday" weapons to be dropped on Hamas and Gaza.

Revital ‘Tally’ Gotliv, a member of the right-wing Likud party in the Israeli parliament issued a series of horrifying tweets calling for a brutal wave of attacks that would “shake the Middle East”. The 47-year-old Israeli lawmaker, is from the same party as the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, who rules in conjunction with four ultra-religious and far right parties.

She said she wanted to “crush and flatten” Gaza - one of the world’s most densely populated countries. She said Israel should loosen “everything in its arsenal” against Gaza, following brutal Hamas attacks Saturday that kicked off the latest wave of conflict and have seen over two thousand people die on both sides.

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Tally Gotliv called for the deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people (Wikipedia)

Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defence missile system over the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon (AFP via Getty Images)

It is believed that Israel has a number of nuclear weapons, and has done so since the 1960s, but the country has never confirmed it. Alongside "doomsday" weapons, she also called for “Jericho missiles”, a generic term given to Israel’s ballistic missile arsenal.

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After Hamas militants attacked and killed hundreds of people, Israel has since wrestled back control of its borders, and commenced a relentless missile bombardment of Gaza. Now, some reports have warned that the country is planning an invasion, which would see even more killed.

A salvo of rockets is fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza toward Israel (AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Gotliv released an incendiary series of tweets in which she called for a “doomsday” missile that would destroy Gaza “without mercy”. She added: “It is our duty to crush and wipe out Hamas in Gaza. Not in a trickle but immediately … now is the time for an unprecedented military operation in the Middle East.”

She added: “I urge you to do everything and use doomsday weapons fearlessly against our enemies”. After Hamas’ attack, the politician repeatedly calls for the wiping out of Gaza, and deaths of almost 600,000 people who live in the city, and the two million people who live across the strip. She repeated this call for countless deaths again and again.

A man finds his way along a debris-strewn street following Israeli air strikes in Gaza (AFP via Getty Images)

This week’s violence is the latest episode in a tragically long running saga of conflict between Israel and Palestine, stemming back to 1948 when Britain helped settle the new nation. Following UN Resolution 181, the British Mandate of Palestine was split into Arabic and Jewish states, sparking the first Arab-Israeli war.

After that war ended, Palestine’s population was divided and split across three areas, the newly formed state of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. In the decades since, the region has repeatedly broken out into war, but a series of attempts at peace slowly mediated the situation but violence remained. In 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian Authority’s parliamentary elections.

The rubble and destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, following Israeli attacks (AFP via Getty Images)

This gave the political and militant movement control over the Gaza Strip but led to breakouts of violence between them and Fatah, a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. In the years since, Hamas and Israel have repeatedly clashed, often through missile fire across the border.

Then most recently, the militant group launched a vicious attack this Saturday where they killed over a hundred people and took hostages. Some reports have claimed they spent over a year planning the attack, and many were shocked at how blindsided Israel was.

The aftermath of an explosion in Gaza following an Israeli air strike (AFP via Getty Images)

Since then, over two thousand people have been killed on both sides and the war is seemingly set to continue amid reports Israel is preparing for a ground invasion. This followed its ongoing siege of Gaza, which left two million people with dwindling water supplies as the power station ran out of fuel this afternoon.

Kieren Williams