Newly elected Knesset member Moshe Feiglin has publicly stated that “every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy” and that Israel should “not leave a single child there,” remarks that have drawn renewed international scrutiny following his return to parliament.
Feiglin, who previously served as a Likud lawmaker from 2013 to 2015, ran second on a joint list with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party and is projected to re-enter the Knesset after more than a decade, according to provisional election results.
In an interview on Israeli Channel 14, Feiglin said: “Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas. We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there. There is no other victory.”
He has repeated the position in subsequent interviews, including telling The Jerusalem Post this month that “occupation, transfer all, all the Arabs. I don’t care. They cannot stay there after what they did,” and endorsing the expulsion of everyone from Gaza, including premature newborns, in a separate i24NEWS interview.
Feiglin has a long record of controversial statements. In 1995, he described Adolf Hitler as an “unrivaled military genius,” later claiming he was assessing military capability rather than expressing admiration.
In 2008, the British government barred him from entering the United Kingdom, stating his views “would not be conducive to the public good.”
His joint list with Smotrich’s party was formed as a technical bloc to help clear the electoral threshold. The final seat distribution remains subject to the completion of vote counting and coalition negotiations.