In Gaza, homes are not simply destroyed — entire bloodlines are wiped out. One airstrike, and a family is no more. No names in the registry, no bodies to bury, no one left to remember them. Just rubble. As if they never lived.

This is the brutal reality unfolding across the besieged Strip. The relentless bombardment by Israeli forces has not only killed tens of thousands but has also systematically removed Palestinian families from existence. In many cases, there are no survivors, no witnesses — only fragments of lives once lived, scattered among the debris.

Among the many stories of horror is that of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician who received the remains of her own children at the hospital where she works. Her home in Khan Younis was obliterated, taking with it nine members of her family — including eight of her children. Her husband now lies critically wounded. A family nearly erased in seconds.

Human rights groups say these are not tragic mistakes of war. They are deliberate acts — strikes that target civilian homes without warning, in the dead of night, in neighbourhoods where families once lived together, hoping for morning. And when the dust settles, there is no trace of them in Gaza’s civil registry. No record of their birth, their laughter, their grief. Just silence.

The destruction is not only physical — it is societal. Entire generations are disappearing. Civil defence workers continue to recover bodies, but hundreds remain unreached, buried beneath collapsed homes. And still, the bombs fall.

Legal experts and human rights organisations have warned for months that this is not a war — it is the systematic dismantling of a people. A campaign of extermination, carried out in full view of a watching world. Gaza is being erased, family by family, life by life.

And yet, international outrage remains muted. Statements of concern are issued, resolutions are debated — but the airstrikes continue, and so do the funerals. The silence of global powers now echoes louder than the explosions over Gaza.

The question is no longer whether the world sees what is happening. It is whether it will ever care enough to stop it.