Israeli Ambassador Stuns When Interviewer Says She Made Case for ‘Destroying the Whole of Gaza’
No limits for Hotovely in search for Hamas tunnels
Having already rejected the goal of any autonomous state for the Palestinian people in recent weeks, Israel’s top diplomat in the United Kingdom now advocates for the entirety of Gaza to be razed.
Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, a one-time right-wing politician in Israel, stunned British TV journalist Iain Dale this week with her bewildering and destructive admission.
Hotovely made waves just weeks ago when, in an on-camera interview with another journalist, she said “absolutely no” when asked if the Palestinians should eventually get their own state.
Such a two-state solution has long been the desired policy for much of the international community as well as official US foreign policy.
Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza since their military operations began in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attacks. That includes more than 27,000 non-combatant civilians such as thousands of women and children dead.
Hotovely said that it does not matter the amount of destruction Israelis forces cause in Gaza as they seek to neutralize the secret Hamas tunnels which the Israeli government has said is a goal of the military operations.
“Those areas must be destroyed,” she said on British TV. “And one of the things we exposed to the world — after getting into the areas in Gaza that we try to find all those tunnels and underground metro city that Hamas has built thanks to this great support of Iran, Qatar, the international community generosity, everything turned to be this horrible terror city — one of the things we realized that every school, every mosque, every second house has an access to tunnel.”
“But that’s an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building in there,” Dale interjected.
“So do you have another solution how to destroy the underground tunnel city? This is the place where the terrorists hide, where they have all their ammunition, and this is — the rockets that are still fired on his Israeli cities,” she said.
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