Israel removing debris from Gaza to wipe genocide traces: Rights monitor
The Israeli regime is removing huge quantities of rubble from Gaza to wipe traces of its genocidal war against Palestinians, says a human rights monitor.
The lengthy report published by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor on Monday showed that private Israeli companies, enjoying protection from Israeli forces, have been loading some 100 trucks per day of debris from neighborhoods that they have destroyed in southern and eastern Gaza, transporting it to areas the regime controls within the occupied Palestine.
The report said the Israeli regime has been carrying out the clearing operation without notifying international organizations or allowing inspections into the sites where the regime committed appalling crimes in Gaza.
It said the removal can conceal traces of genocide, including summary executions, the killing of unarmed civilians, bombings that targeted entire families, as well as sites believed to contain mass graves or bodies buried within destroyed homes, hospitals, shelters, and civilian facilities.
“These sites need careful examination and thorough criminal investigation before any intervention that might change or erase their features,” said the report.
“These sites hold evidence critical for identifying the weapon, attack sequence, victim and attacker positions, firing ranges, cause and manner of death, as well as fragments, projectiles, spent cartridges, biological traces, and personal belongings.”
At least 13 people, including several children, were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Deir al-Balah, Palestinian officials said.
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The operation can also cause the failure of efforts to identify and locate thousands of persons missing since the Israeli genocidal war began nearly three years ago.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said in a statement in July that the number of those missing because of the war could amount to nearly 8,500.
The war on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 people and injured hundreds of thousands, while displacing nearly two million people inside the largely devastated territory.
A joint report by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the European Union released in April 2026 estimated that Israeli bombardments have left behind some 68 million metric tons of rubble across Gaza.
A recent estimate by Euro-Med Monitor showed that at least 10 million tons of rubble in Gaza have been removed, crushed, or moved from their original sites within areas still occupied by Israeli forces, which account for nearly two-thirds of the Mediterranean territory.
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