Major Israeli politician, Bezalel Smotrich, recently stated that it would be good to starve millions of Gazans to death, but that Israel can’t do this due to international pressure, as we read in Haaretz:

French and German foreign ministries strongly condemned Israel’s far-right finance minister on Wednesday for comments he made earlier this week in which he said starving the residents of Gaza could be used as a tool to secure the release of hostages in Hamas captivity, but that the world wouldn’t allow Israel to carry it out.

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said while speaking on Israel’s decision to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza at the Katif Annual Conference on Monday, that starving two million Gazans “to death” may be the “right and moral” thing to do until Israeli hostages held in Gaza are released, but that the “world won’t let us.”