Israel’s Daily Removal of 100 Trucks of Debris from Gaza Sparks Allegations of Evidence Destruction in Genocide Events

Original article: Israel saca 100 camiones diarios de escombros de Gaza: denuncian operación para borrar pruebas del genocidio

Every day, a fleet of 100 trucks crosses from the Gaza Strip to Israeli territory and occupied West Bank carrying tons of debris, but also what human rights organizations consider to be crucial evidence of war crimes committed in the Palestinian enclave.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has documented a systematic operation involving Israeli soldiers and civilian contractors who process and remove the remains of destroyed buildings without allowing international forensic teams access. This maneuver, according to the Geneva-based organization, constitutes a deliberate effort to evade any criminal investigation that could reveal the extent of the atrocities committed since October 7, 2023 under Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime.

The debris removal operation is carried out with a speed that has alarmed human rights defenders, who point out that the debris scattered across Gaza may contain potential mass graves and bodies of entire families.

“The debris scattered throughout the Gaza Strip includes possible sites of unlawful killings and bombings targeted at entire families, as well as locations that are believed to contain mass graves or bodies buried within homes, hospitals, shelters, and destroyed civilian facilities,” the monitor warned, as reported by El Salto.

Moreover, it noted that international and local investigative committees have not had the opportunity to inspect these sites, which represents a direct violation of established procedures for investigating war crimes.

The organization recalled that Article 70(1)(c) of the Rome Statute, which governs the actions of the International Criminal Court, considers actions that destroy, alter or interfere with the gathering of evidence as criminal and denounced that testimonies from the Strip describe the use of 400 machines to demolish buildings that still remain standing, before forensic experts and munitions specialists can adequately document the scene and preserve human remains and other vital evidence.

Over 1,100 People Have Been Killed Since the Ceasefire

290 days after the ceasefire brokered under conditions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic. The weekly report from the government communications agency of the Strip states that 1,100 individuals have lost their lives since the declaration of the ceasefire, while the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified 685 killings between October and mid-April, including 283 women and children.

Additionally, the Gaza Health Ministry has documented that 2,276 families have been completely exterminated since the offensive began in October 2023, and in 2,348 cases, only one person has survived the annihilation of their family unit. The number of orphaned minors has reached 60,737, reflecting the demographic scale of the conflict.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights also denounced the active displacement that Israel is executing, pushing the Palestinian population towards an increasingly reduced territory. Rapporteur Thameen Al-Kheetan warned that the so-called «yellow line,» which delineates Israeli military control, is continuously shifting westward, trapping residents in a progressively shrinking space. This dynamic, along with the systematic removal of debris, is part of a broader pattern that international observers describe as a continuation of ethnic cleansing.

El Salto noted that on August 4, Gaza witnessed one of the largest funerals in its history when 112 bodies out of 308 recovered from the rubble after a massacre against the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasaina families were buried in Gaza City. Recovery efforts spanned from July 14 to August 3, highlighting the magnitude of the tragedy. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, the situation has drastically deteriorated, with an exponential increase in attacks by settlers, rising from one injury every three days in 2020 to an average of more than three daily so far in 2026.