‘Just like Germany’: Opposition leaders lash minister for comments on wiping out Gaza

24 July 2025, 5:05 pm

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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says comments from Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu that Gaza is being wiped out and made Jewish are “an attack on values and a public relations disaster.”

“Israel will never convince the world of the righteousness of our war against terror so long as we are led by an extremist minority government with ministers who sanctify blood and death,” he says in a statement.

Lapid adds that Israel’s soldiers are not “fighting, dying and being injured in order to wipe out a civilian population.”

MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Hadash-Ta’al alliance, tweets that “this is exactly how they spoke in Germany.”