Cartoon by Barry
TRANSCRIPT OF COMIC
This comic has seven panels. The first six panels feature stark black-and-white caricatures of Israeli political and military figures, each accompanied by a quotation.
PANEL 1
An extreme close-up of Major General Ghassan Alian, seen from below. He’s drawn with a bald head, heavy eyebrows, and an angry, scowling expression.
ALIAN: “Human animals must be treated as such. No electricity, no water, only destruction.”
PANEL 2
Knesset member Simcha Rothman is shown from the chest up, wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie. He has a wide, toothy grin, and his eyes are disturbingly wide.
ROTHMAN: “The children are our enemies.”
PANEL 3
A close-up of Defense Minister Israel Katz. He has neatly combed hair, angry eyebrows, and a sneery expression.
KATZ: “Israel’s policy is clear and no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza.”
PANEL 4
Knesset member Michal Woldiger is shown, with long hair hanging down on either side of her face.
WOLDIGER: “We will cleanse Gaza of every potential murderer, and everyone there is a potential murderer.”
PANEL 5
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, seen from a dramatic low angle. His head is tilted back, and his mouth is unnaturally wide open. He has short springy hair, a beard, and a collared shirt.
SMOTRICH: “Gaza will be totally destroyed.”
PANEL 6
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, shown in profile. He’s wearing round glasses and has short bangs and pursed lips. He points one finger as if making a point.
BEN-GVIR: “There are people there not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”
PANEL 7
On a city sidewalk, two people are arguing. On the left is a short, heavyset man holding a protest sign reading “End the genocide.” He is wincing back from the man on the right.
On the right is a taller man with dark hair, wearing a collared short-sleeved shirt and brown pants. He’s leaning aggressively toward the protester as he shouts.
TALLER MAN: No one in Israel’s government supports genocide!
TINY KICKER PANEL
A woman with curly hair in a bun talks to Barry the Cartoonist. Barry shrugs.
WOMAN: Was it hard finding six quotes for this cartoon?
BARRY: It was hard picking only six.
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
PANEL 7
- A gigantic dog is peeking over a rooftop railing across the street.
- The boxes and books in the store’s display window say: “New Product”; “It’s not needed! It won’t make us happier!”; “What is happiness anyway?”; “Here have a picture of a kitty” (with a picture of a cat).
- A large sidewalk advertising sign reads, “Ooooh! SALE! Wow! Capitalistic stuff 50% OFF!” At the bottom, in tiny letters: “A mystical price we never really charge.”
- A little rat sits under the sale sign, with a bottle at its side.
RECEIPTS
1. Major General Ghassan Alian — October 10, 2023
Head of COGAT, the Israeli military agency overseeing coordination with the Palestinian territories.
“Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction.”
He finished by telling Gazans that they had wanted hell and would get it. Earlier in the statement, he accused residents of Gaza of celebrating Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
Source: The Times of Israel — COGAT chief addresses Gazans: ‘You wanted hell, you will get hell’
2. Simcha Rothman — May 21, 2025
Knesset member and chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
This was an exchange with Channel 4 News journalist Lindsey Hilsum, who suggested allowing Palestinian refugees to enter Israel.
HILSUM: “The children are your enemies?”
ROTHMAN: “They are our enemies.”
Rothman then argued that international refugee rules did not oblige Israel to admit people from an enemy population.
The cartoon condenses Hilsum’s question and Rothman’s answer into a single sentence, rather than a verbatim quotation.
Source: NPR/On Point — The Israeli government’s true goal in Gaza (June 5, 2025).
3. Israel Katz — April 16, 2025
Defense minister.
“Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza.”
In the same statement, Katz described preventing humanitarian aid from entering as a principal instrument of pressure against Hamas. He said that no preparations were underway to resume deliveries.
Sources: AFP — Israel defense minister says no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza and The Times of Israel — Katz clarifies Gaza aid won’t resume yet.
4. Michal Woldiger — February 25, 2025
Knesset member, Religious Zionism party.
“We will eliminate Hamas, cleanse Gaza of every potential murderer, and everyone there is a potential murderer.”
She made the statement at a conference in Eilat. The Times of Israel reproduced it two days later, attributing the original reporting to Arutz Sheva (Israel National News).
Source: The Times of Israel — Any conscription law on Haredim ‘must be temporary,’ says Religious Zionism MK. The quotation appears near the end of the article.
5. Bezalel Smotrich — May 6, 2025
Finance minister.
“Within a few months, we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed.”
Speaking at a settlements conference in Ofra, Smotrich went on to describe concentrating Gaza’s population in a narrow area near the Egyptian border, while the remainder of the territory would be empty.
Sources: The Times of Israel — Smotrich says Gaza to be ‘totally destroyed’ and The Guardian — Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says.
6. Itamar Ben-Gvir — August 16, 2026
Minister of national security.
“There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”
Ben-Gvir said this during a podcast conversation with former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski. He was criticizing the reduction in Israeli airstrikes and advocating targeted killings of 30 to 40 people in Gaza every night, including people who were not posing an immediate threat.
Source: Associated Press — Israel’s Ben-Gvir advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ people in Gaza nightly
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