Itamar Ben Gvir advocates nightly mass murders and the colonization of Gaza

The Israeli Minister of National Security, the far-right and ex-convict Itamar Ben Gvir, publicly called for the murder of between “30 and 40 people” every night in Gaza, in a poem published in the last few hours with Rom Braslavski, who was a Hamas hostage in the Strip.

"I think targeted killings should be carried out in Gaza, eliminating 30 to 40 people every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat; there are people there who do not deserve to live. They should not live. They are not even people," said Ben Gvir, who routinely boasts about violating the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza detained in the country.

In the podcast, titled October 8, Ben Gvir confirmed that he does not agree with the decision of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to have reduced the attacks in Gaza to advance with the peace plan promoted by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

In addition, he advocated for the “massive migration of Palestinians” in Gaza to colonize the Strip with Jewish settlements, a proposal that in the past has been described by various international organizations as an attempt at “ethnic cleansing.” "I consider that all of Gaza is ours (...) We should have settlements not only in Gush Katif (the Israeli colony in the Strip dismantled in 2005), but in all of Gaza, encouraging as much emigration as possible, sending them to their countries of origin, and for the terrorists, no emigration, nothing, just killing them one by one," he assured.

Testimonies of this type, which have been previously given by Ben Gvir and other Israeli public representatives, have been presented before the UN International Court of Justice as evidence of a “genocidal intention” of Israel in Gaza that its rulers deny. Ben Gvir, also an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, has built his political career around ultranationalist and anti-Arab positions. As Minister of National Security, he controls the Israeli Police and the prisons where Palestinians report numerous cases of torture, although he does not have the power to order attacks or direct the Israeli Army.

The far-right minister did not even perform military service due to his links to the extremist Kach movement, declared terrorist in Israel. Furthermore, since his arrival to the Government in 2022, the number of weapons licenses for Israelis, one of the powers controlled by his ministry, has increased by 126%.

Although he stars in scenes of contempt against the Palestinian population every week, the episode that once again placed him at the center of international controversy occurred in May 2026, when he humiliated the activists of the Sumud Global Flotilla detained in Israel. At that time he released a video in which he appeared smiling, waving an Israeli flag and welcoming the activists while they remained handcuffed, crowded together and kneeling on the ground.