An Israeli lawmaker from the ruling Likud party doubled down on comments he made last month that Gaza should be "burned now", saying that there are no innocent people left there.
According to Haaretz, Nissim Vaturi said he doesn't see anything wrong in his words and that he stands behind what he said.
"It is better to burn, to bring down buildings than for soldiers to be hurt," Vaturi said during an interview with Kol Barama radio on Wednesday.
He claimed that everyone in the northern Gaza Strip had been evacuated in an "orderly" fashion.
Since the early days of the war, Israel has forcibly displaced nearly 1.9 million people in Gaza. Many were shot and killed while raising white flags and fleeing on roads designated by Israel as safe.
"I don't think there are any innocents there now, not now and not when I said those things," Vaturi said.
"We also saw a disabled person with crutches who entered [Israel, on 7 October] and robbed, and kidnapped and beat Jews, there were many involved… I have no pity for such people, certainly not in war when soldiers fall to defend the homeland. It is impossible for us to be nice at home and say 'Oh, there are innocent people there.'
A 100,000 remain [in northern Gaza], if there is an innocent there, we would know about them. Whoever stays there should be eliminated, period. I don't even have a doubt."
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