Likud Lawmaker and Deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi said in an interview on the Knesset Channel on Sunday that “the Israeli interest is that there wouldn’t be any Arabs here,” referring to the West Bank.
“If we could expel everyone, we would have done it,” he added.
He said the Palestinian Authority should not be allowed to run the Gaza Strip, labeling it “a terrorist authority.”
When asked if he distinguishes between Arab civilians and terrorists, he replied, “There is no such thing,” claiming that “they do not think like us” and that all Arabs in the West Bank supported Hamas’s October attack.
Last May, Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Prosecutor Amit Aisman decided not to open criminal investigations against Vaturi for alleged incitement to violence against Palestinians, primarily due to his calls to “burn Gaza.”
Explaining their decision not to investigate Vaturi, Baharav-Miara and Aisman stated that “the content of the remarks is vague” – despite Vaturi’s repeated and explicit calls to burn the Gaza Strip.
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He also posted on the day of the Hamas October 7 attack: “We are now united in a single goal – erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.”
Last year, in an interview with the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol BaRama, Vaturi stated that he saw nothing wrong with his calls to burn Gaza: “I don’t think there are any innocent civilians there – not now, and not when I made those remarks,” he said.
