On Friday, Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker of the Knesset in Israel, urged the military to “burn” Gaza and block all fuel and water supplies to the Palestinian enclave until hostages held by Hamas are released. This statement adds to a series of provocative remarks by Israeli politicians amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas. Vaturi, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud... 

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin is giving interview after interview on Israeli television demanding the IDF carry out the complete and total “annihilation” of Gaza with endless airstrikes to cause “destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima.” While one might want to dismiss Feiglin’s comments as the ravings of a lunatic, the Israeli government is following his plan exactly. France 24 shared...