Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the assassination of top Palestinian Authority officials and the detention and torture of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if international authorities take further steps to advance Palestinian statehood.

In remarks at a meeting of the far right Otzma Yehudit party reported by Israeli media, Ben-Gvir said that there is no such thing as a “Palestinian,” and condemned the U.S.’s UN Security Council resolution that is up for a vote on Monday, which suggests there may be a “credible pathway” for Palestinian statehood.

“A ‘Palestinian’ state of the ‘invented people’ who call themselves ‘Palestinian’ must never be established, because the aspiration of those seeking to establish such a state is to build it on the ruins of t

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