A senior Israeli rabbi says Tel Aviv should execute Palestinians instead of arresting them and �leave no one alive� in order to establish safety in the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian media report.

�Israeli army has to stop arresting Palestinians,� Shmuel�Eliyahu�said in a message posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, adding, �but, it must execute them and leave no one alive,� Palestine News Network reported.

As�chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Eliyahu is known for his racist behavior and remarks about Arabs and Muslims. He had earlier urged the Israeli regime to take��revenge� against Arabs in order to restore what he called Israel�s deterrence.

He also described Palestinians as the enemy of Israel and claimed that they �must be destroyed and crushed in order to end violence.�

�If they don�t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand. And if they do not stop after 1,000, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don�t stop we must kill 100,000, even a million,� the Jerusalem Post�quoted him as saying in 2007.

In 2012, he was charged for making racist statements as he called the Arab culture �cruel� and accused Arabs of having �violent norms� which �have turned into ideology.�

Eliyahu alleged that Arabs steal farm equipment belonging to Jews and blackmail farmers.

�The minute you make room for Arabs among Jews, it takes five minutes before they start to do whatever they want,� he purportedly said.

However, the Israeli Justice Ministry dropped the charges against him, claiming that reporters �may� have changed his statements.

Back in December, the Jerusalem Post quoted Eliyahu�as saying, �Should we leave them (Palestinians) alive in order to then free them in another gesture to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? The fact that they still have a desire to commit ...�attacks shows that we are not operating strongly enough.�

On his Facebook page, he also called for the prosecution of those Israeli forces that keep Palestinians alive, saying,��We must not allow a Palestinian to survive after he was arrested. If you leave him alive, there is a fear that he will be released and kill other people� We must eradicate this evil from within our midst.�

The comments come as tensions have been running high across the occupied Palestinian lands in recent months over Tel Aviv�s imposition of restrictions on Palestinian worshipers� entry into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in August last year.

More than 160 Palestinians, including�women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of last�October.

By Press TV