Israeli MP demands Palestinians be killed if they burn rubbish

An Israeli MP has called for Palestinians who set fire to waste to be killed, either by shooting or air strikes.

Zvi Sukkot, a far-right member of the Otzma Yehudit party, proposed the measure during a parliamentary committee discussion on illegal waste-burning on Wednesday.

“The Air Force needs to act and kill them,” Sukkot said. Committee chairman Yitzhak Kreuzer, also from Otzma Yehudit, and Environment Minister Idit Silman of the Likud party, agreed.

“The simplest thing is to send an F-16 to put out the fire,” Kreuzer added.

All three justified the idea of summary killings on the grounds that burning waste “constitutes terrorism”.

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