Moment congressman Brian Mast is confronted by pro-Palestine protestors and tells them 'Israel should go in and kick the s**t out of them'

A US congressman and war hero says Israel should level Gaza and 'kick the s**t out of' the Palestinians who live there.

Congressman Brian Mast was confronted by pro-Palestine protesters as he walked with his cane along the halls of the US Capitol, and gave them a very blunt answer.

Jewish activist Medea Benjamin asked the 12-year US Army veteran, who lost both his legs to an IED in Afghanistan, if he agreed there should be a ceasefire in Gaza as 'the world is asking for one'.

'I think Israel should go in there and kick the s**t out of them, just absolutely destroy them, their infrastructure, level anything they touch. Clear enough?' he replied.

Congressman Brian Mast was confronted by pro-Palestine protesters as he walked with his cane along the halls of the US Capitol, and gave them a very blunt answer

Jewish activist Medea Benjamin asked the 12-year US Army veteran, who lost both his legs to an IED in Afghanistan, if he agreed there should be a ceasefire in Gaza

Benjamin and fellow activist Sumer Mobarak harassed another congressman in the Capitol hallway the same day, and Mobarak is trying to have him charged with assault for swatting her phone away as she filmed him.

Mast, a Republican from Florida, was asked again if Israel should agree to the ceasefire now that Hamas had backed a proposal from Egypt and Qatar.

'You know what? If there's an American held, or somebody else being held, there should be every expectation that Americans come and kill them as well,' he replied.

'If there's an American being held, we should go kill the people that are holding them.'

Benjamin asked: 'Why are you so hateful?' but Mast insisted his views weren't hateful, but that Palestinian civilians brought the violence on themselves.

'These people shouldn't associate with terrorists, they shouldn't vote terrorists into office like Hamas,' he said, then listed several Palestinian terror groups.

Mast is a 12-year US Army veteran, who lost both his legs to an IED in Afghanistan

Mast walks with his sons Magnum and Maverick in the US Capitol during the pandemic

'Well, I think that you are a heartless, soulless, cruel man,' Benjamin said. Mast shot back: 'From you, I'll take that as a compliment'

Benjamin argued that the people bearing the brunt of the Gaza invasion and bombings were children, but Mast replied: 'just 'cause you say it, doesn't make it true'.

'Let me say this very clearly, I literally don't believe a word that you say,' he said.

'Well, I think that you are a heartless, soulless, cruel man,' Benjamin said.

Mast shot back: 'From you, I'll take that as a compliment.'

Benjamin also noted it was Holocaust Remembrance Day and claimed Israel was perpetrating another one on the Palestinians.

She and Mobarak are from Code Pink, which calls itself a 'feminist grassroots organization working to end US wars and militarism'.

Her Instagram profile shows numerous other videos of her harassing lawmakers in the halls of the Capitol, other buildings, and on the street.

How the activists regularly gain access to the Capitol and were able to confront politicians in unclear. 

Benjamin is a Jewish-American, but sympathetic to Palestine and critical of the war, Zionism, and Israeli Government policy. Mobarak is Palestinian-American.

Benjamin is a Jewish-American, but sympathetic to Palestine and critical of the war, Zionism, and Israeli Government policy

Sumer Mobarak (center), a Palestinian-American who frequently ambushes lawmakers about the issue, claims a congressman assaulted her when he swatted away her phone as she harassed him about Gaza at the US Capitol (pictured outside)

The pair harassed Congressman Mike Ezell on the same day as Mast, until he swatted Mobarak's phone away 

The pair harassed Congressman Mike Ezell on the same day as Mast, until he swatted Mobarak's phone away.

Mobarak then added: 'You want the killing of my people, my Palestinian people?'

'Shut up. Knock it off,' Ezell says as the video shows him extending a hand and knocking down the phone that was being used for recording.

Mobarak said she filed a police report against Ezell, alleging assault. US Capitol Police said they were looking into the incident, but did not comment further.

CodePink says on its website that 'China is not our enemy' and shares some views of the Chinese Communist Party - including its human rights abuses.

The group refers to Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China the government relentlessly persecutes, as terrorists and defends their mass detention in 'reeducation' camps.

Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza has killed 34,844 Palestinians since it began after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, according to UN figures.

Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza has killed 34,844 Palestinians since it began after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, according to UN figures

Palestinian medics treat a wounded baby in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah

Palestinian medics treat a wounded man in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah

The casualties included 4,959 women and 7,797 children as of May 8, along with 224 humanitarian aid workers and 97 journalists.

Exactly how many of the dead are civilians is difficult to establish but it is generally believed to be about 70 per cent of the total.

The UN notes it has 'so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures'. 

US President Joe Biden is increasingly uneasy about the mounting death toll and earlier this week demanded it halt the onslaught.

He said American bombs have been used to kill civilians in Rafah and he would pause more arms shipments to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a full-scale invasion.

'Civilians have been killed in Rafah as a result of those bombs and other ways they go after population centers,' Biden said in an interview with CNN.

Palestinians inspect the destroyed buildings in Ez-Zawayda area after the Israeli attack in the central part of Gaza targeted the town of Ez-Zawayda and the Nuseirat Refugee Camp

More than a million Palestinian refugees are sheltering in tent cities in Rafah, the last city in Gaza not invaded by Israel

A Palestinian boy stands amid the rubble of a residential building destroyed by an Israeli strike in Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip

'I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven't gone into Raffa yet - I'm not supplying the weapons.

The president, last week, delayed the delivery of 3,500 bombs to the U.S.'s Middle East ally. It was the first time he used his executive power to influence Israel's approach to its war with Hamas. 

More than a million Palestinian refugees are sheltering in tent cities in Rafah, the last city in Gaza not invaded by Israel.

There are fears of mass casualties should Israeli troops move in, as the civilians who fled there have nowhere else to go.