How Israel is engineering Gaza’s social collapse

Since late 2024, Gaza has undergone a transformation that defies traditional frameworks of war or occupation. What is unfolding is not mere military conquest but engineered disintegration — one in which Israel actively cultivates Gaza’s collapse by empowering criminal militias, fragmenting authority, and dismantling every pillar of Palestinian social infrastructure.

At the center of this unraveling stands Yasser Abu Shabab, a 32-year-old Rafah native of Bedouin…