"Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy"
Revital Gottlieb, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud), 07/10/2023 https://archive.ph/JV8js
Now we all have one common goal - erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 07/10/2023, https://archive.ph/wS6zZ
"We will end things inside Gaza […]. I have removed all restraints, [you’re allowed to] attack everything, kill those who fight us, whether there is one terrorist or there are hundreds of terrorists, [ordering to attack] through the air, land, with tanks, with bulldozers, by all means, there are no compromises. Gaza will not return to what it was."
Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense, 09/10/2023
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly"
Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense, 09/10/2023
"Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating they way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated"
Yoav Kisch, Minister of Education, 09/10/2023
"Every Jew knows the saying 'Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way [..] and their judgement shall be to destroy them, full stop. I relate to them like Amalek."
Yoav Kisch, Minister of Education, 09/10/2023
"This [attack] is not enough, there should be more, there should be no limits to the response, I said it a million times, until we see hundreds of thousands fleeing Gaza, we, the IDF has not achieved its mission, this is a phase that should happen, I am saying this cause these are instructions that were said to the IDF"
Yoav Kisch, Minister of Education, 09/10/2023
"We will eliminate everything. If it doesn't take one day, it will take a week, it will take weeks, or even months, we will reach all places. There is no way that our brothers, our children, our parents will be killed and we won't react because we are a state, — they will regret it"
Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense, 10/10/2023
"Erase Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us. It is not acceptable that we maintain a terrorist authority next to Israel. Do not leave a child there expel all the remaining ones at the end, so that they will not have a resurrection."
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 10/10/2023
"I don't care about Gaza. I literally don't care at all. They can go out and swim in the sea. I want to see dead bodies of terrorists around gaza."
May Golan, Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women in Israel, 13/10/2023
"There are no innocent civilians in Gaza"
Isaac Herzog, President, 13/10/2023
"Destroy a neighborhood in Gaza every day the abductees are in their hands. If we blink, we run out of global credit. Every day that the abductees are with them, a neighborhood must be destroyed on its inhabitants and I will be called cruel. It is a Middle Eastern language."
Almog Cohen Minister Otza Yehudit (Jewish Power), 13/10/2023
"We will uproot evil so that there will be good for the entire region and the world."
Isaac Herzog, President, 15/10/2023
"We must not show mercy to cruel people, there is no place for any humanitarian gestures – we must erase the memory of Amalek."
Boaz Bismuth, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud), 16/10/2023
"There is no humanitarian crisis." [..] "the humanitarian crisis at the moment is in Israel."
Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli Ambassador to the UK, 16/10/2023
"It is not Hamas that should be eliminated. Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country."
Moshe Feiglin, Israeli Politician and leader of Zehut, 17/10/2023
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators, we will not succeed in recruiting intelligence, [or]... in bribing people with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence."
Revital Gotliev, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud), 23/10/2023
"We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness... we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah."
Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, 25/10/2023
"You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, 28/10/2023
"Hate the enemy. Hate the monsters. Any vestige of internal bickering is a maddeningly stupid waste of energy. Invest this energy in one thing; Erasing all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence and try to enter Egyptian territory. Or they will die and their death will be evil. Gaza should be erased."
Galit Distel Atbaryan, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud), former Minister of Information, 01/11/2023
"When there is absolute evil, one must not look back, one must not express empathy. The actions of the oppressors on Black Sabbath [meaning October 7th] are tens of times worse than the actions of Sodom and Gomorrah. The war is not about territory or Economy but a war for the loss of evil from the world and the perpetuation of the absolute good."
Avishai Levy, Lieutenant Colonel and Rabbi of the Northern command, 03/11/2023
"I don’t see a big difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. The Arabs are the same Arabs."
Betzalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, 04/11/2023
"One of the options is to drop an atomic bomb on Gaza. I pray & hope for their [hostages] return, but there is also a price in war."
Amichai Eliyahu, Minister of Heritage, 05/11/2023
"A return to Jewish settlement in the northern Gaza Strip is a correct and logical answer to the murderous terrorist attack by Hamas! The settlement will help restore security, and fix the image of Israeli victory in the eyes of our enemy."
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 14/11/2023
"even a 10 year old [Gazan] boy is a terrorist in 7 years"
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 14/11/2023
"The war will never end if we don't expel them all."
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 02/11/2023
"All the preoccupation with whether or not there is internet in Gaza shows that we have learned nothing. We are too humane. Burn Gaza now no less!"
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (Likud), 17/11/2023
"I said burn Gaza, why should we be ashamed? Are there civilians in Gaza?"
Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of Knesset (Likud), 20/11/2023
"I want the possibility to behead head after head, head after head of the Nukhba"
Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, 20/11/2023
"Our fighters, who went to war... for revenge for the terrible massacre carried out by the Nazi terrorists… will return to peace with the hostages, only after they have cut off the foreskins of all these accursed."
Shlomo Karhi, Minister of Communications, 21/11/2023
"There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip."
Avigdor Lieberman, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Yisrael Beitenu), Former Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister, 30/11/2023
"We’re facing monsters, monsters who murdered children in front of their parents... This is a battle not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism"
Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, 24/12/2023
"My friends at the prosecutor's office, who fought with me on political matters, in debates, tell me, 'Moshe, it is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed,'"
Moshe Saad, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud), 03/01/2024