Global Condemnation of Israeli Minister's Nuclear Threat to Gaza

Israeli Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu's comment about the option of a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip in the Israel-Hamas war has been condemned by China, Iran, and a multitude of Arab nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly disavowed the comments and suspended Eliyahu from cabinet meetings.
China's deputy U.N. ambassador Geng Shuang called the statements 'extremely irresponsible and disturbing' and urged Israeli officials to retract the statement and join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state.
The U.N. disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu stressed the urgency of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
Russia’s ambassador to the IAEA and other U.N. organizations based in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, expressed discomfort that the promise to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Mideast has not been met after almost 30 years.