A US senator has strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his latest openly genocidal remarks advocating the systematic slaughter of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, describing the comments as violent, dehumanizing, abhorrent and a shameful feature of the Netanyahu regime.
Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin took to X on Thursday to denounce Ben-Gvir, stating: “Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has once again made violent, dehumanizing comments about innocent civilians in Gaza. It is abhorrent and a shameful part of the Netanyahu government.”
She added that the extremist minister “should be long gone from any government role and publicly condemned by anyone who claims to care about civilians, Israeli or Palestinian, in the region.”
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has once again made violent, dehumanizing comments about innocent civilians in Gaza. It is abhorrent and a shameful part of the Netanyahu government. He should be long gone from any government role and publicly condemned by…
— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) August 20, 2026
Ben-Gvir’s inflammatory statements came during a podcast interview in which he called for Israeli occupation forces to carry out “targeted assassinations,” killing 30 to 40 people in Gaza every single night, not merely those posing an immediate threat, but individuals he claimed “are not worthy of life,” “shouldn’t live,” and “are not even people.”
The far-right minister, a longtime Kahanist extremist with multiple convictions for racism and support for a banned terrorist organization, further pushed for the complete colonization of Gaza, the mass forced emigration of Palestinians, and the killing of those he labels “terrorists” one by one. He declared: “I see all of Gaza as ours.”
These remarks, which have drawn widespread international outrage from human rights groups, officials and observers, once again lay bare the racist and genocidal ideology driving the Zionist entity’s ongoing campaign of destruction against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Ben-Gvir’s words peak of racism and dehumanization, reflecting the true face of the occupation regime that has already martyred tens of thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, while systematically starving the enclave and reducing it to rubble.
Even as isolated voices in Washington, such as Slotkin’s, issue rare verbal rebukes, the United States continues to provide the Zionist regime with billions in military aid and political cover, enabling the very crimes these comments openly advocate. This selective outrage does little to halt the daily massacres or address the root of the crisis, the decades-long occupation and the regime’s expansionist settler-colonial project.
Iranian officials have rightly condemned such confessions of intent, stressing that they must be preserved as evidence for the eventual day of reckoning and trial of these criminals. The remarks underscore why the Axis of Resistance and free peoples worldwide continue to stand firmly with the oppressed Palestinian nation against the Zionist aggressors and their backers.
