Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that within a few months, the Gaza Strip will be “totally destroyed” and the entire Palestinian population will be “concentrated” into a tiny area in the southern part of the Palestinian territory before being forced to leave as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
“Within a few months, we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed,” Smotrich said at a conference on illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to The Times of Israel.
“In another six months, Hamas won’t exist as a functioning entity… The population of Gaza will be concentrated from the Morag Corridor southwards. The rest of the Strip will be empty,” Smotrich said.
The Morag Corridor refers to a strip of land between the southern Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Rafah.
“The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places,” Smotrich added.
The Israeli minister said that the Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries.” Throughout Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Smotrich has been an outspoken proponent of the ethnic cleansing of the territory.
Smotrich’s comments come after the Israeli government approved military plans to completely occupy Gaza. According to Axios, the plan will involve flattening every single building, forcing the civilian population into one small area, and pressuring Palestinians to leave, though it’s unclear where they could go.
In his speech on Tuesday, Smotrich also vowed that the current Israeli government would annex the West Bank. “It will happen this term. It is one of our most important challenges. We are at a historic opportunity,” he said.
Smotrich is a West Bank settler himself and holds another ministerial position in the Defense Ministry that gives him the power to expand settlements in the occupied territory.
Concentrated, into camps perhaps..?
These open genocidal statements are what comes from people who expect no one in the world to hold them accountable. They are probably correct.
They are counting on the generosity and venality of USA to provide everything to them; whether it
is trade, travel, defense or good will.
However, Israel and Israelis will be more and more treated as pariahs in the majority of the World.
USA's ability to force nations to be friendly to Israel will be limited and any such friendship will be shallow.
I'm happy to treat the State for the s**tpile of awful government officials it is, but I hold hope not all of the Nation of Israel (the common person) consents to what's done in "their name".
I won't ever immediately dismiss an Israeli person as an awful human UNTIL or UNLESS they openly and wantonly declare their individual admiration for the Gaza genocide. Then what they are is clear, and f**k them.
I do my best not to hold populations as monolithic. This does mean giving benefit of the doubt until guilt is admitted.
That Holocaust Store Credit, wielded by the next generation with no personal involvement in the Event, is raaaaapidly dwindling in value.
That's what the nazis said 85 years ago…
Yes, but they did not shout it out to the world that they were exterminating Jews and others that did not fit their "purity test". Israel trumpets it all across the planet being proud of it. Why not – they have the support of the US and Trump and feel that both of them combined are indestructible.
Even Israel pretends they’re “not exterminating” the Palestinians… even if they are and everybody without self-imposed black glasses can see it. They pretend it’s all “in self-defense”, for the destruction of “terrorists”, that Palestinians will be just moved to a concentration camp “for their own safety”, etc. Pretty much what the Nazis did, just that there was no Internet then.
"…there was no Internet then…"
Wait for Trump's counter-speech to Putin's Victory Day address.
"No, no, listen – America, my America, the America that elected me with a landslide bigger than Reagan's, he liked jellybeans you remember…listen, America told the Nazis in 1940 right before we invaded, 'Listen Hitler, we're cutting off TikTok and Amazon, we've got the atomic bomb, we had it in WW1 but you were smart enough to surrender to us then in 1923, like that great Harrison Ford show. Tariffs !"
I would imagine the suicide bombings will be returning in the near future. Hopefully, Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben Gvir will be all in one place when the first one explodes.
Smotrich has a short memory!….
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How can anybody be that evil? At least the Germans tried to hide most of it from the world – these monsters are openly bragging about it.
"How can anybody be that evil?…the Germans tried to hide most of it from the world – these monsters are openly bragging about it."
How? Historically, near-total political, military, diplomatic and mainstream press support from Israel's war criminal co-perpetrator, the U.S.A…
…support that goes as far as intense domestic repression:
the violation of US law – and rewriting it, if it can – to intimidate and criminalize and silence constitutional free speech saying no to US foreign policy and Israeli butchery.
"support that goes as far as intense domestic repression"
Fight the assaut on fredom in America by supporters of Israel.
They are anti-American filth.
As "Masters of the Universe" they define the terms of evil – and as we've seen, brag about it.
Why then is it taking the World Court so long in trying to figure out whether Israel is doing a Genocide or not?
What difference does it make?
Morally, it makes a big difference.
A ruling by the Court provides a strong argument against vile genocide deniers like you.
Except all international institutions are antisemitic.
That’s what all the genocide supporters say!
Since both sides are considered Semitic, it's a wash };-)>
These trials take years, the court has no affirmative means to stop the genocide. If not done in the UNSC, which the US veto prevents, then it's up to the international community, and we've seen how important Palestinian life is to the Arab states. They're too busy westernizing their fiefdoms for the it's 6-Star hotels, Beyonce shows in playgrounds their building for the world's billionaire infidels.
As for the court, last month the ICJ gave Israel a 6 month extension to submit its defense to So Africa's genocide case.
"We are at a historic opportunity." Yes, an opportunity called Donald J. Trump.
They now form a concentration camp. Then they'll kill everyone in it. This is the final step by Israel to become the 1944 Nazis.
Death to Zionism!
"…the entire Palestinian population will be “concentrated"…"
F**KING SERIOUSLY – are Death To Smoochy, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir And Ben Taketh Away all in some secret BINGO game where the first ASI government official to openly say the 5 most ridiculous statements wins the cash jackpot ???!?!!!
Gallant or Levin going to jump into the lead tomorrow with suggestion that all non-True-Israeli™ residents in Israel have to wear Thumbs Down emojis made of yellow construction paper on their shirts ?
How drunk with power ARE these dips**ts ???
“The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places,”
I have at on good word those other places they will be headed to are their homes on Palestine.