Israeli-Palestinian Knesset member Ayman Odeh accused Netanyahu’s regime on Monday of waging a war of annihilation against the Palestinian people and of carrying out a dangerous and undemocratic process to remove him from office, which is set to culminate on July 14 with a vote in Parliament.

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In an article for Haaretz newspaper, he further denounced that the government has abandoned even the bare minimum of morality, naming Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich as the main instigators of the genocide in Gaza. Odeh pointed out that the goal of the Zionist entity is not Israel’s security, but vengeance, destruction, domination, and occupation of Palestine.

The Knesset plenum must vote with a majority of 90 out of 120 members for the expulsion to proceed. The impeachment proceedings against Odeh were initiated following a message he posted on January 19, the day a ceasefire in Gaza took effect, in which he celebrated the prisoner exchange on both sides.

“From here, we must free both peoples from the yoke of occupation. We were all born free,” the politician wrote on X during the truce, which Israel broke with renewed bombings, killing over 400 Gazans in a single night less than two months later.

Settler activist from the far-right Likud party, Avichay Boaron, who initiated the process against Odeh, argued in January that equating Israeli “hostages” with “Palestinian terrorists,” as well as calling to “lift the weight of occupation,” was legitimizing and inciting violence.

In his article, Odeh, who is also the leader of the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta’al party, accused Israeli media of failing to cover the impeachment process with due professionalism, as well as ignoring the horrors of the war in Gaza, which he listed as including the suffering of children, famine, and destruction.

Just before what could be his last day as a member of the Israeli parliament, he also criticized the passivity of the international community, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump and his predecessors, whom he said legitimized the war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip and the rise of fascism in Israel.

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