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Source: Gaza-Strip-Preliminary-Debris-Quantification.pdf , The United Nations, May 2025<\/p><\/div>\n

Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it \u201cunlivable.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21 Oct 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0On 29 August 2024, I stood at a huge, but empty parking lot at Gaza\u2019s southernmost parking lot at Kerem Shalom Crossing<\/a>, against the intermittent loud booms of explosions in the nearby Rafah City, literally one kilometre away inside the genocidally besieged Gaza. I was with a 30-strong interfaith delegation<\/a> of Christian, Jewish, and Hindu leaders, mostly from the United States,<\/p>\n

In my less than 2 minutes Buddhist prayers, I invoked Nazi\u2019s Final Solution \u2013 specifically mentioning the industrial mass killings at Auschwitz, the Nazis\u2019 largest death camp complex immortalized Stephen Speilberg\u2019s Oscar winner, Schindler\u2019s List<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alas, like the rest of the Holocaust Industry<\/a>, including the administration of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum of Poland, the renowned American Jewish movie director has chosen to keep his mouth shut when Israel is, without a doubt, perpetrating its own holocaust, livestreamed non-stop for 2 years. But that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/p>\n

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Gaza City, 22 Mar 2025: From a series of editorial images documenting displaced civilians, including children, elderly individuals, women, and people with disabilities. Photo: Gaza \u2013 Survival Journey, Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n

Even back then, it was clear to me that Gaza is Israel\u2019s Auschwitz, minus the gas chambers, where the SS exterminated, between 1942 and January 1945, 1.4 million Jewish and other identity-based victim populations, including Poles, anti-Nazi partisan resisters, Soviet Prisoners of Wars (POWs), Romani and Sinti people, pacifist Jehovah Witness faith adherents, disabled people and babies, toddlers and children from multiple groups.<\/p>\n

During my whirlwind stop for prayers, next to Gaza\u2019s southernmost crossing\u2019s checkpoint in August 2024, even without Israel\u2019s evident policy of explicitly adding Stalinist strategy of \u201cdeath by hunger<\/a>\u201d the Soviet leadership deployed in Ukraine in 1932-33, I was persuaded by the emerging mountains of evidence that Israel wasn\u2019t simply fighting the war against the Palestinian resistance, the Hamas.<\/p>\n

But rather, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the Zionists\u2019 SS equivalent, was executing the full-blown textbook genocide, that is, Hitlerite physical destruction of a targeted population of 2.3 million Palestinian people, in whole or in large part.<\/p>\n

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Photo by @WillAllen-DuPraw, An interfaith delegation held a vigil, Kerem Shalom Crossing, South Gaza, 29 August 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Israel\u2019s \u201cwar\u201d in Gaza is \u201cMein Kampf in reverse\u201d, as former IDF chief and ex-Defence Minister of Israel retired general Moshe Yaalon<\/a> put it, in a video-recorded meeting of the Commanders for Israel\u2019s Security this summer. According to Wizard Bisan<\/a>, one of the courageous Palestinian citizen video-journalists, reporting deep from inside Gaza, Israel began implementing its policy of mass starvation in the first week of March this year, corroborating Yaalon\u2019s characterization of Israel\u2019s Final Solution to the Question of Palestinians in Gaza, who are still left standing.<\/p>\n

In their 1-August-2025 dated letter to US President Donald Trump, Commanders for Israel\u2019s Security \u2013 600 ex-generals, Mossad and Shin Bet chiefs, and senior diplomats \u2013 confirmed that Hamas\u2019s military and governing apparatus had already been destroyed.<\/p>\n

In his important study The Origins of the Final Solution, The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942<\/em> ( 2004, published by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs\u2019 and Heroes\u2019 Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem) the historian Christopher R. Browning noted that the mass extermination of the Jews in the Nazi-occupied Europe was the <\/em>obsession of Adolf Hitler and the senior leadership of the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n

In the audio-taped recordings made in his exile in Argentina post-World War II, the SS Colonel Adolf Eichman<\/a> who was singularly responsible for organizing and transporting 400,000 Hungarian Jews by rail to Auschwitz, was emphatic that the Fuhrer, Hitler, ordered the \u201cphysical destruction\u201d of the Jews as an unwanted population, \u201ceternal mushroom\u201d on German oak tree, in Hitler\u2019s words.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that the SS executioner was receiving assistance in rounding up Hungary\u2019s Jews from the Jewish Agency in Europe, headed by Israel\u2019s founding Prime Minister David Ben Gurian, the socialist Zionist leader, then based in the British-administered Palestine. As the well-known American Jewish commentator and talk-show host Katie Halper<\/a> pointed out, the first priority of the Zionists who founded Israel by committing the first Holocaust or Al Nakba (the catastrophe) against the nearly 1 million Arab Palestinian natives in 1947-48, was the acquisition of the Arab lands for their ethno-nationalist \u201cJewish homeland\u201d, not saving the Jews of Europe from the Nazi death and slave labour camps.<\/p>\n

That Israel continues with its daily and nightly slaughter of Gaza\u2019s Palestinian population, perfectly fits the Nazi genocide as spelled out in Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf<\/em>. The Nazis systematically pursued this genocidal objective in accord with the Final Solution, the accelerated industrial killing, under the cover of the escalating World War II.<\/p>\n

However, there is something more chillingly sinister and anti-Environment about Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza and its multiple crimes of aggression, to use the legal discourse of the Nuremberg Tribunals, in its neighbourhoods of sovereign states including Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen.<\/p>\n

While I continue to use the Nazi Germany (1941-1945) and Israel (October 2023-present) comparison to inform the opinion of public worldwide who are not students of genocide I am increasingly of the view that Israel\u2019s version of its Holocaust, on-going in Gaza, has a far wider scope and more chilling design than the Nazis\u2019 Final Solution (to the Jewish Question) aimed at the mass extermination of European Jewry.<\/p>\n

The destruction of the natural or physical Environment in Gaza as part of Israel\u2019s \u201cwar of annihilation\u201d compels any student of genocide to explore new language or concepts, to really understand what Israelis are doing in Gaza beyond mass extermination.<\/p>\n

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A mosque in Gaza destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, 20 February 2025. As of January 2025, Israel had destroyed 815 mosques and 19 cemeteries over the course of the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

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My colleague at the Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia, a network of engaged scholars, Gill H. Boehringer, who is formerly dean at Macquarie University Law School, Sydney, Australia, had begun thinking beyond the legal definition of genocide. It is instructive to quote Boehringer (29 November 2023)<\/a> at length:<\/p>\n

The evidence and commentary I have seen from afar on both Al Jazeera (largely from a Palestinian perspective) and the Western media\u00a0en banc\u00a0(from the IDF and Israeli officials past and present, and pundits) much of the physical evidence of devastation is the same or similar, showing very substantial areas of the Gaza strip, small and crowded as it is, has been flattened. The physical demolition of residences, churches, mosques, schools, clinics and much else; the killing of perhaps 20,000, the injuring of perhaps 30,000 Palestinians-many thousands young children and babies-is clearly Genocidal.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is the connection with Ecocide? While much of the evidence will only be discovered in the future when the impact of the toxic bombs, shells from artillery and smaller weapons upon the waters \u2013 above ground and under \u2013 the dusty Gazan soil, and the flora and fauna-possibly even the fish along the coast- can be measured through scientific research, there can be no doubt that the natural environment has been very seriously affected negatively, probably for a very long time. Of course, some of the destruction of the natural environment is already clear to the naked eye.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even a cursory glance at the emerging statistics on the severe destruction of the natural environment in Gaza and all other sovereign regions in Israel\u2019s neighbourhoods is persuasive enough to the view that Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza is aimed not only at the extermination of 2.3 million Palestinians, in whole or any substantial part, but also at the destruction of the natural environment as the essential foundations of life for any sentient beings.<\/p>\n

In passing, the world needs to be warned that the impact of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza goes well-beyond the physical destruction or annihilation of totally besieged Palestinian population inside a narrow strip of Gaza. Its scope of destruction is evidently beyond Gaza, far more devastating than even the Nazis\u2019 Final Solution.<\/p>\n

The noted genocide scholar of UK, Emeritus Professor Martin Shaw of the University of Sussex<\/a>, recently called attention to the fact that Israel\u2019s genocide is \u201cworld changing\u201d in that Israel is forging \u201ca new genocidal mentality\u201d.<\/p>\n

But, equally worth pointing out is that the Environment itself becomes a target of physical destruction by the architects of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, who have so far used the explosive power of the equivalent of the two nuclear bombs in the 28 mile-narrow strip of Gaza on the bank of the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

While the Nazis\u2019 Final Solution was aimed at exterminating the Jews of the Nazi-occupied Europe and expanding the living space for Nazi Germany\u2019s chosen \u201cpure blooded\u201d Aryan Germans, Israeli political and military leaders have taken Lemkinian genocide to a whole new level. Yoav Gallant, On 18 October 2023, the 72-years-old ex-general Giora Eiland<\/a>, a former National Security Advisor of Israel, issued his Gaza War Economy Brief Number 1, with the central theme of making Gaza \u201ca place where no human being can exist.<\/p>\n