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Gaza, Stripped: Displacement, Destruction, and Necro-Humanitarianism

Irit Katz

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The Sheikh Ijlin neighborhood in Gaza City, razed by the Israeli army, January 2025. Creative Commons. Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan.
Humanitarianism
October 2025










Notes
1

“Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, October 7, 2023, .

2

“Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (7 October 2025),” OCHA, October 7, 2025, ; Julian Borger, “‘We Took the Gloves Off’: Ex-IDF Chief Confirms Gaza Casualties Over 200,000,” The Guardian, September 12, 2025, ; “Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children,” UNICEF, October 8, 2025, ; Tal Shalev and Eugenia Yosef, “More Than 10% of Gaza’s Population Has Been Killed or Injured, Former Israeli Military Chief Says,” CNN, September 15, 2025, .

3

Zeina Jamaluddine et al., “Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis,” The Lancet 405, no. 10477 (February 2025): 469–77, .

4

“Israel is in Talks to Possibly Resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan,” Associated Press, August 14, 2025, .

5

“There Are No Innocent People in Gaza: Israeli Minister,” Middle East Eye, July 13, 2025, ; “‘Poll: 62% of Israelis Say “There Are No Innocent People in Gaza’,” i24NEWS, August 25, 2025, .

6

Yaniv Kubovich, “‘No Civilians. Everyone's a Terrorist': IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim Corridor,” Haaretz, December 18, 2024, ; Our Genocide, B’Tselem, July 2025, .

7

Jason Burke and Daniel Boffey, “Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostage remains as ceasefire faces test,” The Guardian, October 14, 2025, .

8

UNRWA Situation Report #150 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, UNRWA, December 5, 2025, .

9

“Humanitarian Situation Update #307 | Gaza Strip,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), July 23, 2025, .

10

“Seven Attacks on Tent Encampments in the Past Two Weeks Kill 34 Palestinians Including 10 Children,” UN, December 6, 2024, .

11

“Israel Is in Talks to Possibly Resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan,” Associated Press, August 14, 2025, .

12

Peter Beaumont and Alice Speri, “‘Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ Plan Dismissed as ‘Insane’ Attempt to Cover Ethnic Cleansing,” The Guardian, September 1, 2025, .

13

"Genocide in Gaza," Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, July 28, 2025, ; Benedict Garman et al., “Israel Levelling Thousands of Gaza Civilian Buildings in Controlled Demolitions,” BBC News, 18 July 2025, .

14

Garman et al., “Israel Levelling Thousands of Gaza Civilian Buildings.”

15

Patrick Kingsley et al., “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians,” The New York Times, December 26, 2024, .

16

Yuval Abraham, “‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza,” +972 Magazine, April 3, 2024, .

17

Aric Tower et al., “What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans,” The New York Times, February 6, 2024, ; Ami Kaufman and Bianna Golodryga, “Palestinian Homes Were Destroyed ‘for Revenge,’ Says Israeli Soldier Who Served in Gaza,” CNN, .

18

Hagai Amit, “‘I Did It for the Money, Then for Revenge’: Israelis Profit from Razing Gaza,” Haaretz, July 28, 2025, ; Julian Borger, “Global Firms ‘Profiting from Genocide in Gaza,’ Says UN Rapporteur,” The Guardian, July 3, 2025, .

19

Hagai Amit, “The Cost of Demolition: Gaza—Never in Israeli History Were So Many Buildings Leveled,” Haaretz, August 19, 2025, .

20

Tom Bennett, “‘Very, Very Toxic’: The Risk of Asbestos in Gaza's Rubble,” BBC News, April 25, 2025, .

21

Nina Lakhani, “Clearing Gaza Rubble Could Yield 90,000 Tonnes of Planet-heating Emissions,” The Guardian, July 22, 2025, .

22

Patrick Wintour, Widespread Destruction in Gaza Puts Concept of ‘Domicide’ in Focus,” The Guardian, December 7, 2023, .

23

Leonie Fleischmann, “Israel’s ‘Generals’ Plan’ to Clear Palestinians From North of Gaza Could Pave the Way for Settlers to Return,” The Conversation, October 25, 2024, ; Josh Breiner, “Far-right Minister Ben-Gvir Proposes Neighborhood for Israeli Police Officers in Gaza,” Haaretz, September 15, 2025, .

24

Mera Aladam, “Israeli Settler Leader ‘Visited Gaza’ to Scout Settlement Locations,” Middle East Eye, November 18, 2024, ; “What’s the Israeli government's policy toward settlers in Gaza?” posted October 23, 2024, by DW News, YouTube, .

25

Maya Rosen, המודעה שעוררה סערה: "בית על החוף בעזה", Mako, December 19, 2023, .

26

“Israeli Real Estate Firm Pushes Settlement Building in Gaza,” posted December 19, 2023, by Al Jazeera, video, .

27

“IDF Expands Military Raids in West Bank Using Bulldozers in Tulkarm,” posted January 29, 2025, by The Guardian, video, ; “Aftermath of Israeli Assault as Military Withdraws From West Bank’s Jenin,” Al Jazeera, September 6, 2024, ; “Demolitions in the South Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley, May–July 2024: 128 Structures Demolished on Authorities’ orders; 288 Palestinians, Including 112 Minors, Lose Their Homes,” posted September 4, 2024, by B’Tselem, video, ; “400% Surge in Demolition of Bedouin Homes in Negev,” Middle East Monitor, November 13, 2024, .

28

“Airstrikes Have Become Routine in the West Bank,” B’Tselem, ; Hagar Shezaf, “Erased: Israeli Settlers Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank,” Haaretz, October 23, 2025, ; “Israel Must Stop killings and Home Demolitions in Occupied West Bank,” OCHA, July 15, 2025, .

29

David Gritten, “Israel Approves Controversial West Bank Settlement Project,” BBC News, August 20, 2025, .

30

Yolande Knell, “Israel's Looming UNRWA Ban a Catastrophe, UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Warns,” BBC News, January 29, 2025, .

31

Kaamil Ahmed et al., “Eleven-minute Race for Food: How Aid Points in Gaza Became ‘Death Traps’ – A Visual Story,” The Guardian, July 22, 2025, .

32

“GHF opening hours make aid inaccessible,” Forensic Architecture, .

33

UNRWA Situation Report #187 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, UNRWA, September 5, 2025, .

34

Nir Hasson, “‘It's a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid,” Haaretz, June 27, 2025, .

35

Matt Spivey and Adam Durbin, “UN Agency Says 6,000 Lorries' Worth of Aid Ready to Enter Gaza and Urges Israel to Allow Access,” BBC News, July 23, 2025, ; Malak A Tantesh et al., “‘We Faced Hunger Before, but Never Like This’: Skeletal Children Fill Hospital Wards as Starvation Grips Gaza,” The Guardian, July 23, 2025, .

36

Tom Bennett, “Head of Controversial Israel-backed Gaza Aid Group Resigns,” BBC News, May 26, 2025, .

37

Irit Katz, "Lethal Humanitarianism: Why Violence at Gaza Aid Centres Should Not Come as a Surprise,” The Conversation, June 3, 2025, .

38

The Gaza Humanitarian Islands Plan Interim Phase, IDSF, December 19, 2024, .

39

Emma Graham-Harrison, “Israeli Plan for Forced Transfer of Gaza’s Population ‘a Blueprint for Crimes Against Humanity’,” The Guardian, July 7, 2025, .

40

Graham-Harrison, “Israeli Plan for Forced Transfer of Gaza’s Population.”

41

Graham-Harrison, “Israeli Plan for Forced Transfer of Gaza’s Population.”

42

Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022).

43

“‘I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind’: Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault on Israel,” Human Rights Watch, July 17, 2024, .

44

Revival for the TKUMA Region, .

45

Planning Administration, 2023.

46

Talia Levy Rosenbaum, בין קרווילות לבית קבוע: כך משקמים את קיבוצי העוטף שנה אחרי, Ynet, October 8, 2024, .

47

Katz, The Common Camp.

48

Chen Maanit, “50 Hostages, 659 Days: ‘We Cannot Normalize a Reality Where Hostages Remain in Captivity’,” Haaretz, July 26, 2025, .

49

Jeremy Bowen, “Bowen: Netanyahu is presiding over a divided Israel - the fault lines are now chasms,” BBC News, August 15, 2025, .

50

“Court Rejects Nahal Oz Residents’ Petition Against Government Push to Send Them Home” The Times of Israel, August 20, 2025, .

51

“Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss luxury ‘Gaza riviera’ plan,” The Guardian, July 24, 2025, .

52

Jason Burke, “The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory,” The Guardian, October 7, 2025, .

53

“Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan in full,” BBC News, September 30, 2025, .

54

“Netanyahu heaps praise on Trump and nominates him for Israel's highest award,” Sky News, October 13, 2025, .

55

Lucy Williamson, “Israel’s ‘yellow line’ in Gaza gives Netanyahu room for manoeuvre,” BBC News, October 21, 2025, .

56

“CENTCOM Opens Civil-Military Coordination Center to Support Gaza Stabilization,” CENTCOM, October 21, 2025, ; Mahmoud Mushtaha, “Gaza must decide its own political future — before the world does for us,” +972 Magazine, October 16, 2025, .







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