Israel’s Minister Wants to Operate in the Gaza Strip Like Russia Operates in Chechnya

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s hardline new minister for strategic affairs, has said the Jewish state should use the same methods in Gaza that Russia had in Chechnya, the AFP news agency reports.

Israel should operate in the Gaza Strip “like Russia operates in Chechnya,” Lieberman, local media quoted the leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party as saying during a meeting of Israel’s security cabinet. He spoke Wednesday after at least six Palestinians, including three militants, were killed and dozens injured in a major Israeli incursion in northern Gaza that the Jewish state said was aimed at stopping rocket fire.

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