Prosecutors said seeking probe into singer Eyal Golan over calls to ‘erase Gaza’

State Attorney Amit Aisman is looking to open a criminal investigation into pop singer Eyal Golan on suspicion of incitement to violence, after the singer called for the death of all Gazans shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

“Gaza should be erased, not a single person should be left there,” Golan said a few days after the attack, according to Kan.

It was not immediately clear when Golan made the specific comments being looked into, but he said almost the same words reported during an interview with Channel 14 a few days after the attack, while performing for soldiers in the field.

Asked for comment about the potential charges, the singer responded in a statement: “The nation of Israel lives” (Am Yisrael Chai) — a traditional rallying cry for Jewish survival that is also the title of Golan’s wartime anthem released shortly after the attack.