Israel is removing evidence from Gaza: it needs to stop!
JVL Introduction
EuroMed Monitor have issued this Press Release outlining extremely worrying developments: “at least 10 million tonnes of rubble have been removed, crushed, or moved from their original sites within the areas under Israel’s unlawful military control, which encompass about 66% of the Gaza Strip.”
This is unrelated to humanitarian efforts to rescue people or to open roads or to “prepare for reconstruction. Instead, Israel is acting unilaterally within closed areas under its military control by demolishing remaining buildings and then crushing, mixing, and transporting the rubble before forensic teams, evidence experts, and unexploded ordnance specialists can examine, document, and preserve the sites, along with the evidence and human remains.” It is unlikely these experts have been granted permission to enter Gaza and when – and if – they are allowed much evidence is likely to have been destroyed.
It seems that there is no end to the indignities Israel is inflicting on the people in Gaza who are still being displaced and only only have access to very limited aid. As well as evidence being destroyed, it is likely that peoples’s remains will also be crushed by the plethora of heavy machinery and carted away. In addition, the people of Gaza have (had to) become adept at recycling building materials from rubble and even this is being taken away, adding to the environmental and recontruction costs of the pulverisation of Gaza.
There is a great deal of information in this Press Release as well as a summary of how these actions violate international law as well as adding still more to the distress and privation of the people of Gaza. The international community must take action.
This article was originally published by Euromed Monitor on Mon 3 Aug 2026. Read the original here.
Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily
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Of course it needs to stop. Of course Euro-Med Monitor are right.
BUT it’s unlikely to stop until war crimes arrests and prosecutions of Israeli ministers, IDF and personnel, etc begin and have progressed far enough to deter new criminality. The first steps to legal accountability will likely be in each nation’s law courts, the ICC has first to be freed from Israel and the USA’s interference.
It will be more difficult to prosecute cases when forensic evidence has been tampered with – but not impossible. There’s much video, satellite and witness evidence from victims, perpetrators and contractors to show what happened and who was responsible for it. The perpetrators face lifetimes of wondering just when they’ll face justice.
The last Nazi war criminals were in their 90s when justice finally caught up with them.
I cannot believe that such an evil country will not suffer grave consequences for the immense suffering it has caused and continues to cause. The calibrated cruelty & inhumanity & measures calculated to ensure evidence of their actions is concealed are unconscionable. And the states complicit in this evil must also face the consequences.
Jenny: I couldn’t agree more, and the fact that serial liar Starmer is no longer PM should not mean he escapes eventual justice. Burnham’s actions taken on Israel’s apartheid/genocide will reveal his true character and define his time as PM. Some of the ministers retained from the unforgivably antidemocratic days of Starmer, and some now given powerful positions do not inspire confidence.