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Israeli war chief praises devastation of Gaza as ‘deliberate policy’

July 21, 2026

A report aired on Channel 14 on 12 July shows Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and other senior officials openly celebrating the apocalyptic destruction of Gaza and the mass killing of Palestinians and their forced displacement to tent cities near the beach.

“The important thing: those neighborhoods like Jabaliya, Shujaiyya, which we only controlled a part of – are destroyed. In ruins,” stated Katz while touring the strip with military officials and journalists.

“When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?” a journalist asked him.

“What do I feel? Feel good. What, this is all the result of a deliberate policy that [was designed] to remove threats,” Katz responded.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸An Israeli soldier’s panoramic video from a Gaza hilltop captures mile after mile of flattened buildings and rubble, a scene critics instantly brand as Israeli excesspic.twitter.com/3iAN18FGDF

— Corefrontline (@corefrontline) April 27, 2026

It's all from the same Channel 14 report on Katz's visit to Gaza on Sunday. Here's a link to the archived tweet of Channel 14. You can see the full report in the original tweet: https://t.co/0XYOysjumv

— Genocide Archive (@Archivepaletc) July 14, 2026

“Instead of the method of raids – enter, exit, and Hamas returns – the IDF is inside, the residents are outside, and the houses are destroyed.”

Since the start of the genocide in 2023, Israel has destroyed most of Gaza through airstrikes and demolitions, making at least half of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians homeless and forcing them to live in makeshift tent cities near the sea.

Israel has publicly tried to justify its mass killing of Palestinians and occupation of Gaza by saying it is fighting Hamas. However, Katz stressed that even if Hamas is disarmed, Israel will not end its occupation of Gaza.

“We are not retreating from the Yellow Line, unequivocally, as long as Hamas does not truly disarm. And even after that, we will remain in Gaza!”

One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians killed by Israel as “terrorists.”

“I don’t know how to describe this [situation] other than victory … When you control 65 percent of the territory [of the Gaza Strip], when 70,000 terrorists have been killed here, when the majority of the population is on the beach since,” stated Tamir Yadai, deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military

Israel Katz ha confermato che la distruzione a Gaza è «il risultato di 1 politica deliberata».
Numerosi leader🇮🇱hanno esplicitato l'intenzione di distruggere—in tutto o in parte—1 gruppo nazionale, imponendo condizioni volte a provocarne la distruzione fisica totale o parziale. https://t.co/CaqqggFob2 pic.twitter.com/ylPsmcEjGJ

— Lorenzo Kamel (@lorenzokamel) July 16, 2026

Israel acknowledges the tally of the dead kept by Gaza’s Health Ministry, which has now reached over 73,000, the majority women and children. However, independent estimates suggest the real toll of Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of the genocide is likely much higher, reaching into the hundreds of thousands.

Yadai celebrated the Israeli military’s occupation of Gaza for a “second summer,” saying its troops enjoy “full freedom of operation.”

Yaniv Assor, commander of the Israeli military’s southern command, celebrated Israel’s ongoing killing of Palestinians.

🚨Horrifying scenes from Israeli aerial footage of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, entire neighborhoods obliterated, homes reduced to dust, life erased. pic.twitter.com/l1SiXpTpIm

— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) May 5, 2026

He boasted that since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran in late February, Israel had carried out 300 targeted assassinations in the strip.

Since a so-called ceasefire was reached in Gaza in October, Israel has killed over 1,100 Palestinians in the strip in near-daily strikes, including on tent encampments housing displaced Palestinians.

Katz has also celebrated Israel’s ongoing destruction of villages in southern Lebanon, saying Israel is now doing to Lebanon what it had previously done in Gaza.

In March, Katz announced that Israel intended to demolish the Lebanese border villages in its newly occupied zone.

“All the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be destroyed, in accordance with the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza,” he declared.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model.

We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way.

And that is what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed.… pic.twitter.com/8JEXBGYtZc

— Clash Report (@clashreport) July 11, 2026