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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Moscow says Israeli minister’s nuke remarks raise ‘huge number of questions’
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Russia says that Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu’s remarks appearing to consider the use of nuclear weapons in Gaza raise “a huge number of questions.”
Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, adds that Israel seems to have admitted to the possession of nuclear weapons, a matter on which it has been intentionally ambiguous for decades.
“So we are hearing official statements about the presence of nuclear weapons?” she asks, adding that the International Atomic Energy Agency should inspect.
Eliyahu was reprimanded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suspended indefinitely from cabinet meetings.
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