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‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction

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Written by Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine
Published: 19 May 2025 19 May 2025

While airstrikes account for mass casualties, bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable, a joint investigation reveals.

This logic of mass destruction has also been applied in the West Bank, albeit on a smaller scale. In fact, a military source told +972 and Local Call that the nature of the destruction in Gaza stems from the tactics the army developed in Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank during the Second Intifada — “exposing the terrain” in military parlance.


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