‘Reprehensible’: PML-N’s Shehbaz condemns Israeli minister’s Gaza ‘nuclear option’ remarks
PML-N Shehbaz Sharif has condemned the remarks by an Israeli minister wherein he suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, an ultranationalist politician part of Netnayahu’s ruling coalition, told Israel’s Kol Barama radio he was not entirely satisfied with the scale of Israel’s retaliation in the Palestinian territory, AFP reports.
When the interviewer asked whether the Israeli minister advocated dropping “some kind of atomic bomb” on the Gaza Strip “to kill everyone”, Eliyahu replied: “That’s one option”.
Shehbaz said that this “extremist mindset with access to nuclear power poses a grave danger to global peace”. He called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to “monitor the Zionist state’s nuclear sites” and called on the world to “respond decisively to this extremism and nuclear madness”.