A local Israeli council head suggested in a radio interview that Gaza should be flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today, the latest Israeli official to publicly call for the annihilation of the besieged Palestinian enclave.

David Azoulai, a political leader for the northern Israeli town of Metula, made the remark Sunday in an interview with Tel Avivs Radio 103FM . He went further, suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza be forcibly sent to refugee camps in Lebanon. Metula sits near the Israel-Lebanon border.

What happened on Oct. 7 is a kind of second Holocaust, Azoulai said, according to a translation of the interview by Haaretz . The politician said that while he is not a far-right person, he believes Palestinians in Gaza should be ordered to go to the beaches, where Israeli ships will load them up, the civilians the terrorists they have there, and place them on Lebanons shores where there are enough refugee camps.

On Oct. 7, Hamas militants launched a deadly assault on Israel that killed approximately 1,200 people. Hundreds more were taken hostage, some of whom have since been released by Hamas. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Israels ongoing retaliation effort has displaced 1.9 million Gazans, killed more than 19,400 Palestinians , and wounded more than 52,200. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which was declared a safe zone by Israel in early December, have reported ongoing attacks and displacement from there, too.

When asked what Israel should do with the Gaza Strip in the event that all the territorys residents be forcibly driven out, Azoulai responded that it should be left empty, just like Auschwitz. A museum, so the whole world will learn what the state of Israel can do.

Israel, Azoulai continued, should then turn Gaza into a buffer zone from the sea to the border fence, completely empty, so that everyone remembers what was once there.