Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu is the first senior government official to react to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, posting on X that “this is the right way to clean the world from this filth.”
His comments come despite Hebrew media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers to stay silent on the overnight assassination in the Iranian capital.
Israel has not officially commented on Haniyeh’s death.
Eliyahu, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party, intimated Israel was behind the killing.
“No more imaginary ‘peace’/surrender agreements, no more mercy for these sons of death,” he writes in a post linked to an article announcing the killing.
“The iron hand that will strike them is the one that will bring quiet and a little comfort, and strengthen our ability to live in peace with those who seek peace,” he says.
“Haniyeh’s death makes the world a slightly better place,” he says.
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