An online petition to expel the Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely for her support for “destroying” Gaza has now gathered more than 100,000 signatures, Al Jazeera reports.

The Change.org petition, filed less than a month ago, says the role of political envoys is to foster good bilateral relations between countries, and they must face consequences when they are achieving the opposite.

“This petition is not against Israel or its people but against actions that could potentially harm our society’s fabric,” it reads.

Hotovely has made several highly controversial comments about how much, if not all, of the Gaza Strip needs to be razed to the ground in order to destroy Hamas and its large network of underground tunnels.

“Do you have another solution to destroy the underground tunnel city? This is the place where the terrorists hide, where they have all their ammunitions,” she said last week, after a UK radio programme host asked whether she supports “destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building in it”.