US Uses New Forms of Genocide
1 Carrying Unused Munitions asked to drop them on Gaza instead of Landing Fully Loaded
This began as a ‘local initiative’ but quickly became a routine. Pilots dropped leftover bombs in Gaza to ‘support ground forces in Khan Younis and northern Gaza’. Air Force Commander Tomer Bar approved expanding the practice to all squadrons. As a result, Gaza was hit with intensified airstrikes daily, with dozens of jets dropping hundreds of munitions on Palestinians without needing extra deployments. A military official said this strategy boosted the Air Force’s efficiency, saving resources and increasing firepower across multiple fronts.
2 Bulldozing Infrastructure
However, the payment system for working in Gaza suggests otherwise. The military offers contractors 2,500 shekels (around $750) to demolish buildings up to three stories tall and 5,000 shekels for taller structures. This payment scheme incentivizes contractors to demolish as many buildings as possible, as quickly as possible, something difficult to reconcile with claims that these actions are purely based on military necessity. Moreover, operators are paid daily or monthly, often earning significantly more than they would for similar jobs inside “Israel”, with some reportedly making up to 30,000 shekels a month. These high wages are meant to compensate for the dangerous conditions, which deter many from working in Gaza. Conversations with both civilian contractors and military reservists suggest that many carry out the demolitions with a sense of vengeance, as they steer their machines through the devastated remnants of Gaza’s cities. So, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hundreds of Israeli bulldozers, excavators, and armored continue their relentless mission to for years to come. This level of destruction appears as a deliberate objective.
The Israeli military has increasingly opted to deploy an unmanned version of Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozers to a number of battlefields. The remotely operated systems allow the IDF to flatten areas without risking additional troops. According to Tel Aviv has deployed the unmanned D9 – or RobDozer – to Gaza and Lebanon since October 7, 2023, and Israeli officials say the IDF is ramping up its use of the system. One source told AFP Israel has used “robotic tools for over a decade, but in very small numbers. Now it is being used in large-scale warfare.” While the RobDozer can be remotely controlled, IAI claims it can even operate autonomously. TheIAI “says it can operate on several levels of autonomous independence, ‘allowing it to dig trenches in the field, clear a route in difficult or otherwise impassable areas, and move large or suspicious obstacles.” While the company stresses that the platform ensures the safety of Israeli soldiers who no longer have to drive combat bulldozers in dangerous situations. The Israeli state arms maker is also in the process of an unmanned M113 armored personnel carrier. Katz that “Gaza will become smaller and more isolated, and more and more of its residents will be forced to evacuate from the fighting zones.”
3 Explosive-Laden Robots Pour into Gaza City: ‘More Devastating Than Airstrikes’
First, as we’ve the IDF is utilizing airstrikes involving powerful missiles hitting the bases of high-rise buildings in order to collapse them in their own footprint. But for other buildings and structures in tightly-packed urban areas, there’s increased reliance on explosive-laden robots, or something that might look straight out of Terminator 2 and Skynet.
Walla news outlet says “unprecedented” number of explosive-laden, remote-controlled vehicles are being prepared to invade Gaza City alongside the ground infantry troops. The Israeli military commonly refers to them as “suicide APCs” – and they are capable of being driven deep into urban environments before causing huge explosions. They’ve been able to cause ‘mega-blasts’ so powerful that in some instances they can be heard as far away as central Israel. Palestinians have described “earth-shaking” explosions, with one eyewitness recently telling that ”They are far more devastating than air strikes.”
Gaza’s Government Media Office has said over one hundred of these explosive robots have been used in about the past month alone. Hundreds of residential units and small business buildings have been destroyed. Each of these robots is loaded with highly explosive materials, sometimes weighing up to seven tons. Often it is outdated M113 armored personnel carriers that are turned into autonomous vehicles and strapped with the large explosives. The fact that they are modified personnel carriers means that they can carry a very large payload. It was only as recently as 2024 that these suicide robots were observed operating and carry out destruction on the Gaza battlefield. Israeli ground troops have been subject of ambushes by well-armed Hamas militants who can swiftly emerge from Gaza’s underground tunnel network. Sending robots to clear areas ahead of time is a tactic Israel’s infantry increasingly relies on.
4 Drones/Bombs
Occupied Palestinian Territory – Over the past week, the Israeli army has detonated around 120 booby-trapped vehicles carrying nearly 840 tons of explosives in residential areas of Gaza City, an average of more than 17 vehicles per day. Each detonation is equivalent to a 3.7-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale, marking the largest campaign of brute force aimed at destroying the population as part of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Detonating 6–7 tons of TNT, the load carried by each vehicle, roughly equals the energy released by a natural earthquake of 3.7 magnitude. Severe destruction from such blasts typically extends for tens of meters (around 90 meters at a high intensity level), while fractures and minor damage can reach several hundred meters, extending up to nearly one kilometer in open areas. In the past week, Israel has intensified its use of these booby-trapped vehicles in three main axes of Gaza City, the southern, eastern, and northern axes, with the declared objective of destroying the city’s central residential blocks and forcibly displacing its population. Field documentation in Gaza City shows that the detonations cause clear shaking of buildings even several kilometers away from the blast center, lasting a few seconds in a manner similar to natural earthquakes. Given that nearly all buildings in Gaza have already been damaged or weakened by more than 23 months of continuous bombardment, each new explosion causes disproportionately greater destruction. The cracked structures and open spaces amplify the impact, damaging dozens of buildings hundreds of meters away from each new blast. The Israeli army’s practice of converting out-of-service armored vehicles into massive, remotely detonated explosive charges is unprecedented in scale and method in modern history. The catastrophic impact of these explosions extends beyond physical destruction and displacement. They are also used as a systematic tool of psychological terror, spreading extreme fear among civilians and coercively driving them to flee. The detonations produce deafening blasts that reverberate throughout Gaza City, causing the remaining buildings to shake under the pressure of violent shockwaves, leaving civilians trapped in a state of constant fear, trauma, and insecurity. The Israel Defense Forces are routinely killing civilians in Gaza with commercial drones modified to drop grenades on them — often leaving the corpses to be eaten by dogs.The tactic is being used to deter civilians from venturing into areas declared off-limits by the IDF. Compounding the amorality of the conduct, the soldiers say the off-limits areas aren’t marked on the ground.
Most of these grenade-dropping drones are modified EVO models manufactured by China’s Autel for photography use. They only cost about $3,000 compared to $2 million for Israel’s military-grade Elbit Hermes 450. The IDF modifies the EVOs with a military “iron ball” appendage that can carry a grenade dropped by the push of a joystick button. H. described how drones change the nature of taking a human life: “This technology has made killing much more sterile. It’s like a video game. There’s a crosshair in the middle of the screen, and you see a video image. You’re hundreds of meters away, [sometimes] even a kilometer or more. Then you play with the joystick, see the target, and drop [a grenade]. And it’s even kind of cool. Except this video game kills people.”
5 Bio & Chemical Warfare
Many reports have emerged over the past year of bio-warfare being conducted against the Gazans. The Israelis used poison gas and other bio-warfare chemicals on the population. Most of the time, the US, Britain and Israel use such methods to test their effectiveness, and check out its performance in real battle field conditions. Another method is listed below.
What is beginning to emerge about the smuggling of a highly addictive opioid pain medication into the Gaza Strip via bags of flour that are being distributed as humanitarian aid. Oxycodone – the controversial drug behind the opioid epidemic in the US – is not only being smuggled in flour bags, but also crushed into powder and mixed into the flour itself. The highly addictive opioid drug can cause severe respiratory depression, overdose, and death.
6 GHF
Due to the “slowness” of the Israeli efforts to expel/destroy the Gazans, the Americans came up with another sadistic idea. The CIA was tasked with this operation, and they set up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or the GHF. The GHF is a CIA outfit. Run by American military. Working in coordination with the Israeli military. The GHF is complicit in a through bait-and-switch aid operations, with showing that its occupation-backed teams have directly civilians who were shot while attempting to access food parcels, while nine others remain missing. In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested 15 km ribbon of land that borders Egypt. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians, but to murder them. Since the start and end of this sadistic tactic, the GHF killed about 2,000 and wounded more than 15,000 hungry people. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them. The GHF has proposed building concentration camps both inside and outside Gaza as part of a plan to displace the strip’s population. The GHF developed the $2 billion plan to build “Humanitarian Transit Areas” in February. The plan was drawn up sometime after 11 February, later submitted to Trump. The plan, which proposes building camps as “large-scale” and “voluntary” places where the Palestinians from Gaza population could “temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so.” This entire project came to a stop after videos surfaced showing the sadistic nature of this plan. The world was in an uproar.
7 Traitors, Collaborators & Gangs
Yahya Sinwar personally led an intelligence operation against collaborators in Gaza starting from April last year. During the operation, he managed to intercept thousands of dollars that had been sent by the UAE—through Mohammed Dahlan and Tahnoun bin Zayed—to collaborators inside Gaza. The resistance had been monitoring the movements of gangs and families who maintained contact with the occupation during the war. Beginning in April, the Sahem Unit successfully infiltrated these groups by planting double agents within them. The intelligence operation, overseen by Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar, enabled the resistance during the war to intercept hundreds of thousands of dollars that were being transferred by the UAE through Tahnoun bin Zayed—the brother of UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed and his national security adviser. The operation was carried out in parallel with an Israeli unit established during the war under the Israeli army’s intelligence security branch, which received direct funding from the UAE. This Israeli unit’s mission was to recruit informants inside Gaza with the goal of replacing Hamas’s rule with gangs operating directly under Tahnoun bin Zayed and Mohammed Dahlan.
During the operation, the Sinwar brothers successfully recruited double agents who accepted financial support from the UAE but redirected the funds to the resistance instead of delivering them to the chaos networks backed by Israel and Tahnoun bin Zayed. This was the main reason behind the resistance’s success in eliminating collaborator cells. Hamas has been cracking down on gangs supported by Israel. Throughout the war, these groups – including Abu Shabab’s militia and others – carried out extensive (to blame on Hamas) and provided Israeli forces with intelligence for military operations.
“Our evidence demonstrates that these individuals are implicated in acts of sabotage, kidnappings, the execution of civilians, looting aid, offering armed cover for the occupation, and receiving logistical and financial support from the occupation,” one of the sources said. In mid-October, Gaza’s Interior Ministry forces clashed with armed groups and killed dozens of fighters. Scores of others have been apprehended. An amnesty period announced by authorities in Gaza – strictly for militia members who were not involved in killings – has expired.
Abu Shabab was convicted by Hamas in 2015 and sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of drug trafficking and theft. He escaped in October 2023 after Israeli airstrikes hit the prison where he was being held. Leaders of Abu Shabab’s Tarabin clan publicly disowned him and have called for his killing for collaborating with Israel. Abu Shabab, who heads a clan operating in western Rafah under Israeli security control, is accused of and leading armed groups that have looted humanitarian convoys and engaged in drug trafficking. His gang is also responsible for scouting and securing territory ahead of Israeli military operations. Hamas has made multiple failed attempts to assassinate Abu Shabab, whose militia has established fortified positions and residential compounds in areas controlled by the Israeli occupation forces. Footage shows them accompanying aid convoys and patrolling Rafah under Israeli protection. The clan leader has also been linked to criminal activity, including smuggling and narcotics, and was previously imprisoned by Hamas before escaping due to Israeli airstrikes in October 2023. Abu Shabab’s gang was behind widespread aid looting around Karem Abu Salem and eastern Rafah, operating from a base in an Israeli-controlled zone. An internal UN memo identified Abu Shabab as “the main influential figure behind the widespread and organized looting” of Gaza-bound aid convoys. Despite this, Israeli officials have continued to accuse Hamas of diverting aid, a claim the UN has explicitly rejected.
In response to the looting, Hamas established the Arrow Unit in late 2024 to protect convoys. Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted these security teams with airstrikes, further undermining humanitarian operations. Hamas has given militia leader Yasser Jihad Abu Shabab 10 days to surrender to authorities on charges of treason, armed rebellion, and forming an armed gang, or face trial in absentia, according to a statement by the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza on 1 July. The Revolutionary Court, part of Gaza’s military judiciary, called on the public to report Abu Shabab’s whereabouts, believed to be hiding near eastern Rafah. The unprecedented announcement marks the first public action of its kind by Hamas since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza 21 months ago. Yasser Abu Shabab, announced that his group, the Popular Forces, has completed the training of another batch of fighters. The group first emerged in the eastern part of the area of Rafah in May of last year, and has since been accused of having links to ISIS and looting aid convoys. In June, Abu Shabab, a Bedouin, released a recorded statement claiming to operate “under the legitimate Palestinian authority,” referring to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Meanwhile, a Hamas security official told a hunt was under way for Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of the so-called Popular Forces. The official revealed that one of the fugitive leader’s aides had been “liquidated” in recent days. Abu Shabab’s militia is deployed in areas that will not be evacuated by the Israeli army in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, allowing the group to enjoy further Israeli protection, at least temporarily. The Popular Forces established a base under Israeli guidance in the area east of the destroyed city of Rafah on the Gaza border with Egypt. This area is far behind the “yellow line,” to which Israeli troops must withdraw, according to the map of Trump’s ceasefire plan. Abu Shabab’s men are also behind the “red line” of withdrawal, up to which an international force will allegedly be deployed. Areas occupied by the group in the destroyed cities of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, and eastern Khan Yunis, are also behind the yellow line.
In early 2024, as Israel was imposing its starvation siege on Gaza, Israeli intelligence Abu Shabab’s militia, tasking them with attacking and looting convoys carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza, including from the UN. Israeli officials then blamed the attacks and chaos on Hamas, using the excuse to seize control of aid distribution in Gaza via the deadly GHF. Hossam al-Astal, the Popular Forces commander in eastern Khan Yunis, claimed the group would remain in Gaza, while Hamas would be forced to leave. “The Hamas dogs will not be happy, we exist and they are (the ones) leaving,” Astal claimed. Members of Abu Shabab’s militia fear being prosecuted after the genocide ends. Members of the group have recently begun communicating with several families and tribal leaders, in hopes of opening indirect channels with the Ministry of Interior to resolve their legal and tribal status and ensure they are not subject to prosecution. This communication took place in secrecy, via intermediaries from local and tribal leaders, who relayed messages between the police leadership in Gaza and the militia members who wished to settle their status. A specific mechanism was agreed upon for them to surrender and stand trial, while ensuring the confidentiality of the proceedings. Abu Shabab’s group had helped Israeli forces arrest Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the director general of field hospitals, from a medical facility in Rafah several months ago. “The security campaign is continuing and escalating until this issue is completely over, and no party will be allowed to violate the law,” the official added. Netanyahu publicly acknowledged in the same month that Israel was arming tribes that oppose Hamas, without providing any details.
Four militias backed by Israel & Abu Dhabi plan ‘Project New Gaza’ to dismantle Hamas
Hamas has been confronting Israeli-backed militias in Gaza since the ceasefire, and is said to be planning its ‘largest yet’ crackdown. Israel is backing four militias as part of a project to oust Hamas and create a “new Gaza,” according to a report released by on 25 October. These armed groups – which throughout the war have been engaged in hostilities against Hamas on behalf of Israel – are currently operating along the Yellow Line of Washington’s ceasefire map, in Israeli-held territory. “We have an official project – me, Yasser Abu Shabab, [Rami] Khalas, and [Ashraf] al Mansi,” militia leader Hossam al-Astal, a Palestinian Bedouin with links to the Palestinian Authority (PA).”We are all for ‘The New Gaza.’ Soon we will achieve full control of the Gaza Strip and will gather under one umbrella,” he added. The headquarters of Astal’s militia in south Gaza’s Khan Yunis lies on a military road less than 700 meters from an Israeli army outpost.
“I’m hearing the sound of tanks now while I’m speaking, perhaps they’re out on patrol or something, but I’m not worried. They don’t engage us, and we don’t engage them … We’ve agreed, through the coordinator, that this is a green zone, not to be targeted by shelling or gunfire,” Astal went on to say.
Astal added that the rifles used by his gang members are purchased from former Hamas fighters on the black market. “Ammunition and vehicles, on the other hand, are delivered through the Kerem Shalom border crossing after coordination with the Israeli military. Karem Shalom crossing is also used by ISIS-linked drug-trafficker and smuggler Yasser Abu Shabab, who leads his own anti-Hamas militia with Israel’s backing. Astal and Abu Shabab use the same car dealer to smuggle vehicles into Gaza. Hebrew writing can be seen on some of the vehicles used by these groups. Abu Shabab’s militia is said to be the largest, and consists of at least 2,000 fighters. It is based in the southernmost city of Rafah, which was completely destroyed by Israeli forces during the genocide. Rami Khalas (or Halles), an anti-Hamas activist affiliated with the Fatah party, is also leading an in northern Gaza. The fourth leader participating in the so-called “New Gaza” project is Ashraf al-Mansi, who leads a group in north Gaza called the People’s Army. Mansi’s group is said to be the weakest of the militias in Gaza. All these groups are receiving backing from Abu Dhabi. A photo shows Abu Shabab’s deputy Ghassan al-Duhine, standing near a vehicle with a UAE-registered license plate. Additionally, the logos of two of the militias, one of them led by Astal, are nearly identical to those used by UAE-backed groups in Yemen. Regarding links to the PA, Astal said, “I have people within my group who are still, to this day, employees of the Palestinian Authority.” “Very soon, God willing, you will see this for yourselves; we will become the new administration of Gaza. Our project is ‘The New Gaza.’ No war, at peace with everyone – no Hamas, no terrorism,” he added. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is involved in ceasefire and post-war efforts, recently used the phrase ‘New Gaza.’
Other reports have indicated Abu Dhabi‘s plan to initiate reconstruction in areas still held by Hamas.
This falls in line with a broader US-Israeli plan to divide Gaza. The proposal envisions splitting the enclave into two zones – one under Israeli control and one under Hamas – with reconstruction limited to the Israeli-held area until Hamas is disarmed and removed from power, effectively cementing a “new Gaza” under prolonged Israeli oversight. The Popular Forces is not the only group opposed to Hamas that is currently operating in southern Gaza. A second group called the Strike Force Against Terror was formed in the town of Kizan al-Najjar close to the city of Khan Younis by former PA officer Hossam al-Astal. “Whoever lives under Hamas’s oppression come to us – dozens of families contact me every day.” Despite the ongoing purge, the leader of the so-called Strike Force Against Terror, an Israel-backed group based in the southern Gaza, remained defiant. “To all the Hamas rats, your tunnels are destroyed, your rights don’t exist anymore. Repent before it is too late – there is no Hamas from today onward,” Hossam al-Astal said in a social media post. “We are all one,” the commander said. Together, the groups are seeking to create a protective “belt” of control through Khan Younis and Rafah, in coordination with Israel, he claimed. “They help us expand. The goal is the same – that people live under our protection, in agreement with our neighbors,” the commander added, referring to Israel. Just like Abu Shabab, al-Astal was imprisoned by Hamas in the past; he was charged with treason. Al-Astal was very open about his relationship with Israel, whom he said was providing supplies to his group. He also said that the group’s military activities were supported by “the United States, Europe, and Arab states” that he refused to name.
Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip executed three men accused of collaborating with Israel, amid reports suggesting that emerging Palestinian opposition armed groups in the enclave have begun to receive more support from Israel. A video of the execution surfaced online on September 21. It shows a masked man issuing a warning to “all collaborators” before the three men, kneeling and blindfolded, are kicked onto their fronts and shot in front of a crowd. The execution reportedly took place in Gaza City, where the Israeli military is currently conducting a major offensive against Hamas. A Palestinian security official from the Hamas-run Gaza government said that the executions were carried out by the “Joint Operations Room of the Palestinian resistance”. The videos showed “revolutionary rulings” being implemented against people for security collaboration with Israel, it said, adding that the execution was “a clear message and serve as a deterrent to anyone tempted to collaborate with the occupation”.
In the days leading to the execution several reports revealed that opposition to Hamas began to grow in southern Gaza with direct backing from Israel. While Hamas fighters emerged only after the release of the hostages, clashes with criminals and collaborators first broke out the moment the ceasefire went into effect on October 10. The most noticeable battle was in Gaza City, where Hamas conducted an operation against the Doghmosh clan. The clashes in the city involved an armed militia affiliated with the Israeli occupation; “militia members” killed displaced people as they were returning from southern Gaza and over 60 were arrested. By October 13, Hamas fighters had killed 32 members of “a gang affiliated with a family in Gaza City”, while six of its personnel had also been killed. A video from Gaza that surfaced online on the same day shows several fighters, reportedly members of Hamas, opening fire at least seven men after forcing them to kneel in the street. Civilians who witnessed the execution cheered and called those killed “collaborators.”
Asked by reporters on Air Force One about the ongoing purge by Hamas in Gaza on October 13, Trump, suggested that the group was acting within the parameters of the ceasefire deal. Israel could soon present these groups as a part of its plan for “the day after” for Gaza. The U.S., the European Unions, Arab states, the PA and even many in the Strip itself will likely see them as a better alternative to direct Israeli occupation. Nevertheless, in the long term, these groups will likely end up facilitating the complete occupation of the enclave, similar to what some would claim PA security forces have been doing in the occupied West Bank.
Abu Dhabi’s complicity reaches New Heights
It is Abu Dhabi, however, that has emerged as the true driver behind the shift in US posture, its harsh maneuvers over Gaza even raising concerns among allies. Cairo, for one, reportedly sought Saudi help to contain the Emiratis, while the US-backed, West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) – though eager for Hamas’s downfall – fears being sidelined in the process. Egyptian sources describe aggressive UAE lobbying for immediate displacement of Gazans, while Israeli crossings have seen a drop in aid shipments, despite Abu Dhabi holding privileges for such transfers – privileges now withheld even from Jordan. Meanwhile, high-level UAE–Israeli coordination continues, exploring “scenarios” that deliberately exclude aid deliveries, despite repeated Egyptian pleas. According to the sources: “There are inappropriate Emirati moves that threaten Egyptian interests, national security, and even the Palestinian cause directly, but we cannot speak out and confront Abu Dhabi directly for many considerations. Egyptian fears now are that the UAE is trying to carry out large-scale plans to blow up the Gaza Strip from within by stimulating protests against Hamas and creating confrontations between the people and the resistance. It even amounted to Emirati funding through Israel for any Gazan who wants to demonstrate against Hamas.” Cairo believes Abu Dhabi is even more eager than Tel Aviv to realize Trump’s displacement scheme and is willing to bankroll it. With Egypt not willing to accept mass displacement, alternate US–Israeli plans involve evacuating Gazans by sea to Cyprus, then to third countries. The occupation army’s evacuation maps point not to Rafah but to the Mediterranean Sea.
Abu Dhabi has even sounded out an African state – via its own channels – on Israel’s behalf to accept displaced Gazans.
Sde Teiman horrors: 135 Palestinian bodies ‘Israel’ returned mutilated with missing organs
Gaza health officials say at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by “Israel” were previously held at Sde Teiman in southern occupied Palestine, which is already under investigation for torture and deaths in custody. The site, previously exposed for keeping Palestinians in cages and torturing them, has long been associated with severe human rights abuses. Images of the Palestinian victims reviewed by The Guardian, too graphic to publish, show several of the deceased blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs, and one with a rope around his neck. Doctors in Khan Younis who examined the bodies said both autopsies and field observations “clearly indicate that Israel conducted summary executions and systematic torture against many of the Palestinians.” Health officials reported “clear signs of direct gunfire at point-blank range and bodies crushed beneath Israeli tank tracks.”
Evidence strongly suggests that many of the Palestinians were executed. Sde Teiman serves both as a detention camp notorious for deaths in custody and as a storage site for bodies abducted from Gaza. Human rights groups are calling for an investigation to determine how many victims died at the facility.
Their mother added, “Where is the world? All our detainees returned tortured and broken.” Palestinian doctors say the fact that many of the bodies were blindfolded and bound points to torture and executions during detention at Sde Teiman, where, according to Israeli media and whistleblower reports, nearly 1,500 bodies of Palestinians from Gaza are being held. Many died in detention, others lost their minds. Some had limbs amputated. They suffered They brought dogs that urinated on us.
According to the UN, at least 75 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 7, 2023.
Dozens of Palestinian bodies returned by Israeli authorities were ‘blindfolded, bound, crushed under tanks, and missing corneas, livers, and limbs,’ officials denounced
Gaza’s Government Media Office formally Israel on 17 October of stealing organs from Palestinians after Israel returned 120 mutilated bodies following the recent ceasefire, including some who had been tortured to death. “We formally accuse the Israeli army of stealing organs from the martyrs,” stated Dr. Ismail al-Thawabta, Director General of the Media Office, while demanding an international investigation into Israel’s “torture, mutilation, and organ theft.” The 120 bodies “arrived in extremely poor and distressing condition,” including blindfolded, bound, crushed under tanks, and missing corneas, livers, and limbs, Thawabta stated. After the release of the bodies, families of missing Palestinians rushed to hospitals—especially Nasser Hospital—trying to see if their relatives were among them. But many remain unidentified and will have to be buried anonymously.
“The health system in Gaza is almost completely collapsed. We lack the equipment for DNA testing and forensic analysis. Some families could only identify their loved ones from personal belongings or clothing. If we cannot identify the rest, we will be forced, sadly, to document and bury them anonymously, to preserve human dignity,” Thawabta added. According to the Media Office’s data, 9,500 Palestinians remain missing, most of them trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings. “Entire families—father, mother, children—remain buried for nearly two years,” the Media Office director stated. The bodies are difficult to locate due to the sheer amount of destruction Israeli bombing has caused, and because Israel has destroyed almost all of Gaza’s heavy machinery, bulldozers, and excavators, preventing rescue operations.
“Even now, despite the ceasefire, all crossings remain closed, and Israel blocks the entry of rescue machinery. This is a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in modern history—over 3,000 families completely wiped out, another 6,000 families killed with only one survivor,” Thawabta added.
Israel has a long history of stealing the organs of Palestinians. In 1990, Dr. Hatem Abu Ghazaleh, former chief health official for the West Bank, that during the first intifada, “organs, especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the first year or year and a half.”
In 2013, Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom published a documenting the theft of organs from deceased Palestinians brought to the Israeli National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) between the First Intifada and the 2012 war in Gaza. Abu Kabir director and chief pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss admitted in a July 2000 with US academic Nancy Scheper-Hughes that the institute was secretly taking skin, bones, cardiac valves, corneas, and other human materials from bodies during autopsies. He described removing not only corneas but whole eyeballs from the bodies of the dead, which would be returned to their families with their eyelids glued shut. In 1996, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, an influential leader within the fundamentalist Jewish group, Chabad-Lubavitch, that Judaism permits organ theft from non-Jews on the basis that Jewish lives are more important than non-Jewish lives. “If a Jew needs a liver,” he asked, “can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.” The story continues in part 3.
