Palestinians in Gaza now live with less personal space than detainees in Guantánamo Bay. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, around 2.3 million people are crammed into a zone of just 55 square kilometres, barely 15% of the Strip’s original area, amid relentless Israeli bombardment, blockade, and enforced displacement.

The organisation warns that this is not just a humanitarian catastrophe, it is a calculated act of genocide. With over 85% of Gaza declared closed military zones, families have been pushed into overcrowded camps like Al-Mawasi, where population densities exceed 47,000 people per square kilometre, the highest in the world. Shelter, food, water, and medical care are virtually nonexistent.

The scale of destruction is staggering. More than 90% of homes have been damaged or destroyed, schools and hospitals reduced to rubble, and all universities obliterated. Even the debris is being hauled away into Israel, erasing what little remains of Gaza’s infrastructure, and with it, any hope of return.

Euro-Med calls this what it is: not “evacuation,” but systematic erasure. A people caged, displaced, and stripped of their future under the eyes of a watching world. The Monitor is demanding international action, sanctions, investigations, prosecutions, not just to stop the killing, but to preserve the very existence of a people who are being buried alive under rubble, silence, and impunity.