Ben-Gvir calls for nightly killings of Palestinians in Gaza

NEW: Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of dozens of people he says are 'not worthy of life'.

Israel's national security minister is calling for nightly killings of Palestinians in Gaza.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right head of national security, said dozens of people in Gaza should be killed every night, people he described as, in his words, not worthy of life. That's a sitting cabinet minister, on the record, calling for scheduled killings of a civilian population.

Al Jazeera reports this as the latest in a string of moves aimed at making life in Gaza unbearable, and Ben-Gvir has a long history of extreme statements. But this one is different in kind. It's not policy language, it's not security language. It's a minister of a government assigning worth to human lives, and finding dozens of them, every night, without any.

The words are now on the record. What happens to the man who said them is the question that matters.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at aljazeera.com