Eliyahu, an ultranationalist politician in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, told Israel’s Kol Barama radio that he was not entirely satisfied with the scale of Israel’s retaliation in the Palestinian territories after Hamas fighters carried out their deadly attacks inside southern Israel.
Israeli officials say the attacks killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians.
The Hamas-run health ministry says Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since October 7 has killed 9,488 people, most of them women and children.
When the interviewer asked whether the Israeli minister advocated dropping “some kind of nuclear bomb to kill everyone” on the Gaza Strip, Eliyahu replied: “That’s an option”.