military forces have damaged or destroyed at least 92 percent of housing units, 95 percent of university buildings, 94 percent of hospitals — and the list goes on and on.

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There can be no disputing the extent of Israel’s obliteration of the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Its military forces have damaged or destroyed at least 92 percent of housing units, 95 percent of university buildings, 94 percent of hospitals — and the list goes on and on.

But as Eyal Weizman writes in his new book “Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,” Gaza is not only a demolition zone; it is also a construction site. Almost nine months into a so-called “ceasefire,” Israeli bulldozers roam freely through two-thirds of Gaza’s pre-war territory, tearing up everything that once was and carving out an unrecognizable landscape of military roads, fortifications, and vast expanses of nothingness.

Weizman is well placed to analyze this process. Over the past two and half years, Forensic Architecture — the research agency he founded and directs, based at Goldsmiths, University of London — has catalogued thousands of incidents of violence in Gaza; conducted audio-visual investigations challenging Israel’s official narrative on several high-profile incidents; and contributed a bank of evidence to the International Court of Justice to support South Africa’s application under the Genocide Convention.

Listen to the full epsiode now on The +972 Podcast through the link.

https://www.972mag.com/podcast-eyal-weizman-ungrounding.../