Hamas has called US House of Representatives member Randy Fine’s suggestion to use a nuclear bomb in Gaza “an incitement to genocide and a crime against humanity”, Al Jazeera reports.

Hamas said in a statement on Telegram that “this rhetoric is filled with hatred and incitement to genocide”.

“This extremist call is a full-fledged crime and evidence of the fascist racism that governs the thinking of some American politicians.”

In a statement yesterday, Republican legislator Randy Fine told Fox News: “In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get [an] unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here.”

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