How Israel is engineering genocide and ethnic-cleansing in Gaza | Eyal Weizman | UNAPOLOGETIC

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Eyal Weizman, architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture — a research agency that uses spatial investigation to expose state violence and human rights abuses. We dive deep into the ongoing genocide in Gaza, examining how Israel’s military campaign is not just a war of bombs, but one of deliberate spatial erasure. Eyal breaks down how architecture becomes both a target and a witness — revealing the design, intent, and systematic logic behind the destruction of homes, hospitals, and infrastructure. But this didn’t start on October 7th. We trace the roots of what Eyal calls an architecture of occupation and ethnic cleansing — a project stretching back to 1948 and unfolding across Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel itself. From settlements to bypass roads, from home demolitions to surveillance towers, we look at how space is used to control, fragment, and displace Palestinian life. We also explore the politics of documentation — how Forensic Architecture builds cases for truth and justice in a world that rewards impunity. And why, in the face of silence and suppression, bearing witness through spatial forensics becomes an act of resistance. This is a conversation about violence, memory, and the radical potential of architecture as a tool for liberation. UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim 0:00 – The Architecture of Genocide 1:10 – Meet Eyal Weizman & Forensic Architecture 2:40 – Loss in Gaza: Partners, Friends, Colleagues 5:00 – Is Documentation Enough? Facing Total Destruction 7:40 – Gathering Evidence at Scale: A New Method 10:10 – Destruction with Intent: Gaza as a Planned Kill Zone 13:00 – Safe Zones That Kill: Al-Mawasi & Rafa 15:00 – Ungrounding Gaza: Bulldozers & Memory Erasure 18:00 – Rubble as Weapon: Sniper Towers, Earthworks & Traps 21:30 – Making Gaza Uninhabitable: A Slow, Designed Death 25:00 – Palestinian Resilience & Indigenous Survival 28:30 – Architecture Against International Law 30:30 – Ethnic Cleansing by Design: Since 1948 34:00 – The Gaza Envelope: Settler Fortresses as Siege Tools 37:30 – The Tunnel Network: History, Ingenuity, Resistance 42:00 – From Wells to Warfare: Indigenous Knowledge Reborn 45:00 – Hollow Land: Origins of Eyal’s Work 49:30 – Architecture as a Tool of Oppression 53:00 – How Forensic Architecture Builds the Record 57:00 – Rebuilding Gaza or Repeating Genocide? 1:01:00 – The Only Just Future: Return, Equality, and One State Support stories that matter. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR0fZh5SBxxMNYdg0VzRFkg/join Subscribe to our channel: http://ow.ly/AVlW30n1OWH Subscribe to MEE Telegram channel to stay up to date: https://t.me/MiddleEastEye_TG Middle East Eye Website: https://middleeasteye.net Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/MiddleEastEye Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/MiddleEastEye Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye