Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced [View all]
It seems clear that Netanyahu is planning to take over all of Gaza by killing or expelling all Palestinians. No one seems willing to even try to stop his genocide. Where are the countries sanctioning Israel with heavy economic penalties? Where are the voices of world leaders against genocide? Where are the leaders of Arab neighbors calmly watching Israel murder fellow Muslims? The silence is deafening.
“As Bartov said, despite the lack of coverage, the systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Indeed, the Israeli military is so desperate for extra bulldozers that, over the last couple of months, there have been ads for bulldozer drivers to help demolish Gaza posted on Facebook – some apparently offering as much as 3,000 shekels ($882) a day for the work. I found around a dozen of these ads on Meta since the end of May, many of them on a public Facebook page for bulldozer operators. Meanwhile a Haaretz article from this week looking into the outsourcing of bulldozer drivers found that they are paid per building: 2,500 shekels for the demolition of a small building, 5,000 shekels for a large building.
“The idea that the bulldozer has become a major article of genocide and warfare is quite new,” says Neve Gordon, a professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London. “What is happening in Gaza is not a building here or there being demolished; it’s the destruction of whole villages and towns.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/09/bulldzoer-gaza-genocide-idf-meta
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