Iran: Israel's threat to use nuclear bomb in Gaza 'alarm for whole world'

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned a recent threat by an Israeli extremist minister to use a nuclear bomb against the Gaza Strip, which the regime has brought under a relentless war for a month now.

"The boundless brutality of the Zionist regime against the oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza in recent days, with today's threat by the cabinet minister of the mentioned regime to use a nuclear bomb, is an alarm for the whole world," Nasser Kan'ani said in an early Monday post on X social media platform.

"The world should immediately stand up against this fascist and racist regime and hold its supporters accountable," the spokesman added.

Kan'ani's reaction came after earlier on Sunday, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said in an interview that deployment of the unconventional weapon against the coastal territory was "one of the possibilities."

Asked about the fate of the Palestinian families in Gaza after nuking the Strip, he said, "They can go to Ireland or deserts."

Eliyahu added that allowing any humanitarian aid into Gaza was wrong, claiming, "There is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza." He also went as far as calling the innocent civilian population in Gaza "Nazis."

His remarks came amid a campaign of unprecedented bombardment that Israel has been waging against Gaza since October 7, when the Palestinian territory's resistance groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm in the Occupied Territories in response to the regime's intensified crimes against Palestinians.

Responding to Eliyahu's remarks, the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement denounced his comments as an expression of Nazism.

"The statement by Eliyahu that throwing a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip is one of the solutions did not come out of nowhere, but rather is an expression of the level of decadence, Nazism, and sadism that is taking place in the corridors and minds of this occupying entity,” Hamas said in a press release.

It added that the illegal entity is founded on killing and genocide, and treats others as animals.

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