THE ENGINEERED EXTINCTION OF GAZA
By Vincent Lyn
Gaza is an apocalyptic wasteland. Fifty million tons of rubble and ruin stretch as far as the eye can see. Rats and starving dogs gnaw on corpses buried beneath collapsed buildings. The air is thick with the rancid stench of decayed flesh, mingling with the foul reek of raw sewage. There is no clean water. No food. No safety. No hope. The last remnants of medical care have all but vanished. What remains of the Palestinian population endures a hell-scape of shattered concrete, where death lurks in every corner — from disease, starvation, unexploded ordnance, and the relentless aftermath of 15 months of ceaseless bombardment.
This is not just destruction. It is deliberate extermination.
A litany of plagues — Hepatitis A from poisoned water, respiratory infections from inhaling toxic dust, scabies, malnutrition, and starvation — ravage a people already on the brink. Babies waste away. The elderly, the sick, the injured — they are sentenced to death by slow, calculated deprivation. A staggering 1.9 million people — 90 percent of Gaza’s population — have been uprooted from their homes, forced to flee again and again, surviving in makeshift tents amid the ruins, exposed to the elements and the merciless cruelty of a world that has abandoned them.
Gaza has been turned into an unlivable graveyard.
Nine out of ten homes are gone. Entire apartment blocks, schools, hospitals, bakeries, mosques, universities — obliterated. Cemeteries lie in ruin, tombstones shattered, the dead denied even their final rest. Israel even reduced Gaza City’s Israa University to dust in a demolition. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is spared.
The economy has been decimated — 80 percent unemployment, an 85 percent collapse in GDP. Gaza has been economically, physically, and socially annihilated. And now, Israel has banned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) — an organization I have worked with extensively for the past eight years — guaranteeing that real humanitarian aid will never reach the starving, disease-stricken survivors. Gaza’s torment is not an accident. It is the plan.
The United Nations estimates that rebuilding Gaza would cost up to $50 billion and take until 2040 — if, by some miracle, the funds are ever provided. But that will not happen. Because Israel does not intend to let Gaza live.
Israel, armed to the teeth with billions in U.S., German, Italian, and British weapons, created this abyss and is determined to keep it that way. After an initial trickle of humanitarian aid during the ceasefire, Israel has once again strangled Gaza’s supply lines. The infrastructure — water treatment plants, power grids, sewer lines — will never be repaired. The roads, bridges, farms — they will remain in ruin. The people — if they survive — will be left to rot in filth and starvation, unless they flee.
That is the goal.
Gaza is not being bombed into oblivion — it is being engineered into extinction.
Israel is counting on grinding down Palestinian resistance through sheer, unrelenting agony. It knows that if the horror continues long enough, the people will be forced to leave — or die. That is the calculation. That is the genocide. And Israel is confident the world will do nothing to stop it.
Even now, foreign journalists are banned from Gaza. The goal is clear: to prevent the world from witnessing the depths of this catastrophe, to silence the cries of the dying, to erase the evidence of the crime in real time.
And this is only Stage Two.
Israel’s ambitions stretch far beyond Gaza. It has already seized Syrian land in the Golan Heights, with open calls to push all the way to Damascus. It eyes southern Lebanon, the West Bank — and it has no intention of stopping. Far-right Israeli groups are already preparing to settle Jewish-only colonies on the ruins of Gaza — just as they did for 38 years before withdrawing in 2005. Now, with Palestinian blood soaking the sand, they plan to return.
And the so-called leaders of the world? They watch. They fund. They enable.
Washington and its European allies, the self-proclaimed champions of democracy and human rights, are active participants in this live-streamed genocide. They will not stop the bombs, nor will they stop the slow, agonizing death by hunger and disease. They will do nothing.
Because this is what they have chosen.
And they will continue to choose complicity — until every last Palestinian in Gaza is dead, displaced, or forgotten.
Vincent Lyn
CEO & Founder of We Can Save Children
Deputy Ambassador of International Human Rights Commission (IHRC)
Director of Creative Development at African Views Organization
Economic & Social Council at United Nations (ECOSOC)
Chief International Director at 365 Security Services
Rescue & Recovery Specialist at International Confederation of Police & Security Experts