Tehran, IRNA – Far-right Israeli cabinet minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the occupation of the Gaza Strip and building settlements in the besieged territory.

He also said that he had been fired from security meetings of the Israeli regime’s cabinet because he had demanded, prior to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, that resistance leaders in Gaza should be assassinated.

Ben-Gvir meanwhile criticized the policies of the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over humanitarian pauses in the Gaza war and what he called containing the Palestinian resistance.   

The Zionist regime began its war on Gaza on October 7 following Operation Al-Aqsa Storm the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched in response to seven decades of the regime’s brutalities against the Palestinian people.

The regime has conducted relentless airstrikes on the besieged territory, targeting residential areas including hospitals.

The Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Sunday that 11,100 people have been martyred since the outbreak of the war.

It said that 8,000 of the martyrs were women, children, and elderly people.

The ministry put the number of injured people at more than 27,000. 

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