Israeli minister swiftly punished after suggesting dropping a nuke on Gaza

An Israeli minister on Sunday suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, and was swiftly suspended from part of his role.

Amichai Eliyahu, Israel’s heritage minister, made the remark in a radio interview, in which he also said he believed “there are no non-combatants in Gaza,” Israel’s Haaretz news site reported.

Eliyahu is part of Israel’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party, itself part of the fragile coalition forming Israel’s government as it wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip…