In Gaza, starvation, bombings, and mass displacement are not collateral damage they are the plan. As Israel dreams of cafes on the beachfront, the reality on the ground is a genocide, echoing the darkest chapters of history. This in-depth report exposes the haunting truth behind the fantasy of the “Gaza Riviera.”
Israeli society continues to applaud the carnage in Gaza, embracing the slaughter not as a war crime, but as an ideal vision of the future.
The emaciated corpses of Palestinian children, starved to death, evoke no horror among Israelis. Families gunned down at food distribution points designed less to provide aid and more to herd the desperate into a giant open-air prison ahead of forced expulsion are not seen as victims. The airstrikes and shellings that kill or wound civilians averaging 28 child deaths daily raise no alarm. The razed landscape, reduced to rubble by relentless bombings and now being flattened by bulldozers, leaving most Gazans homeless, is not perceived as barbarism. The destruction of water systems, hospitals, and clinics where medical staff collapse from malnutrition is not condemned. And the executions of 232 doctors and journalists, slain for bearing witness, elicit no protest.
A nation intoxicated by power and impunity, Israel is trapped in its own delusions. The genocide is filtered through a compliant media and corrupt political elite, feeding Israelis only what reaffirms their superiority. They are emboldened by their high-tech arsenal, emboldened by the license to kill. The fantasy of cleansing the land of Palestinians, cast as human pollutants, has become synonymous with safety, with utopia.
Israel stands among the legacies of Pol Pot, Rwanda, Bosnia, East Timor and yes, the Nazis. It has embraced the logic of the Final Solution. No population since WWII has been dispossessed and starved with such efficiency. The architects of this campaign, channeling the spirit of Adolf Eichmann, have meticulously engineered Gaza’s destruction.
Starvation was never a consequence; it was a strategy. From the beginning, Israel targeted Gaza’s food sources—bombing bakeries, halting aid convoys and intensified the blockade in March, cutting nearly all food access. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which fed most of Gaza, was vilified with baseless claims of involvement in Oct. 7’s attacks. The U.S., which gave $422 million to the agency in 2023, froze funds. UNRWA was then banned.
Over 1,000 Palestinians have died in chaos while scrambling for aid parcels distributed during brief one-hour windows at Israeli-controlled sites under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, says the U.N. Human Rights Office.
After 21 months of saturation bombing turned Gaza into a wasteland, after survivors were forced into tents or tarps or left unsheltered, with no clean water, medical relief, or civic structure, Israel doubled down. It weaponized famine.
The U.N. reports that nearly one-third of Gaza’s population goes days without food.
Famine is a gruesome death. In Sudan, 1988, I watched it unfold. The toll: 250,000 lives. My lungs still bear marks from that time, standing amidst the dying, many of them too frail to resist tuberculosis. I was strong. They were skeletal.
I witnessed death in motion men, women, children, inching across the parched land. Hyenas, grown used to human flesh, snatched infants. Villages were ringed by bones entire families who lay down, too weak to rise again.
Those starving eat anything livestock feed, grass, insects, rodents, dirt. They suffer chronic diarrhea. They can’t breathe. They ration spoiled food. Hunger gnaws, relentlessly.
Their bodies cannibalize themselves. Iron deficiency cripples blood oxygen levels. Vitamin B1 loss derails heart and brain function. Muscles waste. Kidneys fail. Immunity collapses. Organs rot. Infections like cholera, typhoid, TB run rampant. Thousands die.
Concentration falters. Mental withdrawal sets in. Touch becomes agony. The heart teeters. Cuts won’t heal. Cataracts blind even the young. Eventually, seizures and hallucinations announce the end. For adults, death by starvation can take 40 days. The elderly, children, and sick die faster.
This is Gaza’s reality—engineered deliberately.
But Israelis see something else. They see a paradise. A Jewish ethno-state where Palestinians whose land was stolen, whose lives were degraded into apartheid no longer exist. In their minds, beaches and cafes flourish above mass graves. Hotels and yachts fill the vision shared in an AI-generated video by Gila Gamliel, Israel’s Minister of Innovation. The fantasy? A Gaza without Palestinians, promoted alongside Donald Trump’s surreal AI content.
In the video, Israelis dine beachside. Yachts glisten on the Mediterranean. Towers, including a Trump Tower, gleam. New homes replace ruins. Netanyahu and Trump, with their wives, stroll the shores.
This vision is branded “voluntary emigration.” But in truth, it’s a clear ultimatum: leave or die.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has vowed to annex northern Gaza, declaring it part of Israel. Speaking at a Knesset conference titled “The Gaza Riviera from vision to reality,” he pushed for Jewish settlements and population transfer endorsed, he claims, by Trump.
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, who once suggested nuking Gaza, echoed genocidal rhetoric: “All Gaza will be Jewish.” He compared Palestinians to Nazis, celebrating their erasure. “We are pushing this population that has been educated on ‘Mein Kampf.’”
Genocidaires fantasize about wiping out indigenous populations. The Nazis used mass starvation to ethnically cleanse Slavs, Jews, and others, aiming to colonize Eastern Europe.
But reality is rarely so accommodating.
The luxury developments Israel dreams of will never rise just as Bosnia’s imagined Serb-only capital, complete with golden domes, a grand theater, and a 15-story clock tower, never materialized. Instead, the ruins will be filled with crude apartments housing ultranationalist settlers, proto-fascists, and zealots.
These settlers already infest the West Bank. They form militias. They’ve killed over 1,000 Palestinians there since Oct. 7. Armed by the state, they operate like Indonesia’s Pancasila Youth an unhinged force akin to Nazi Brownshirts.
One recent victim: Saifullah Musallet, a 20-year-old Palestinian-American, lynched while defending his family’s land. He is the fifth American killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7.
These vigilantes, once done with the Palestinians, will devour each other.
Gaza’s genocide marks not just the collapse of Palestinian society, but Israel’s descent into lawlessness. There is no pretense of ethics. The barbarians Israel claims to fight, they are now looking back in the mirror.
If any justice exists, it is this: once their victims are gone, Israelis will be left to rot in the moral ruin they built.
