Ungrounding Quotes

“About a third of those killed in Gaza are children. Seventeen thousand newborns, babies, toddlers and children were killed by explosions, shots, suffocation, being buried alive, starvation, dehydration and burning.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Famine most affected the poor and vulnerable, the elderly and the sick. Famished mothers could not breastfeed their babies. Malnourished toddlers lost their teeth, suffered liver and kidney failure and died in agony. The crime of starvation as a method of warfare – alongside the crimes against humanity of murder and persecution – were the reason”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“On 24 April 2025 Israel expanded the buffer zone further to include some 70 per cent of the Strip’s territory.[”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Incident 31106-91297 occurred on 10 March 2024 when an Israeli soldier killed Atta Ibrahim al-Muqayad, a deaf and mute seventy-three-year-old Palestinian, inside his home in Gaza City. Incident 31112-93909 occurred on 12 November 2023 when the Israeli military shot Hala Khreis, a Palestinian woman attempting to evacuate with her grandson, while holding a white flag. Incident 00000-73965 is of Palestinians killed near Shuja‘iyya on 5 April 2024 when they tried to”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“On 12 January 2024, less than two hours after Israel concluded its defence at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Germany announced that it would intervene as a ‘third party’, siding with Israel.[”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Conditions of life, calculated’ can be used as an alternative slogan for modern architecture.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Humiliated by the efficiency by which Palestinian fighters broke through the Envelope and the casualties it sustained, Israeli politicians called upon the army to ‘bomb without distinction or mercy’, and ‘wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth’.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Despite Israel’s claim that many or even all school buildings, universities and mosques harbour tunnel shafts, highly frequented public buildings are better avoided because they are more vulnerable to informers.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“The army failed in burying their officer in the soil, but their bombing killed 135 Palestinians living above the surface.[”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Ponies, monkeys, crocodiles, hyenas, wolves, ostriches and chimpanzees were smuggled via the tunnels to the Gaza Zoo. A lion was brought in as a status symbol”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“Muhammad Shehada, a Palestinian journalist who grew up in Gaza, remembered ordering KFC from al-Arish in Egyptian Sinai. An Egyptian taxi driver delivers it to a tunnel courier who ferries it across the border. The package is passed on to a Gazan taxi driver who delivers to the address.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“The original inhabitants were as diverse as anywhere in Palestine: urban traders, politicians, land-owning families, writers, educators, administrators, farmers, semi-nomadic pastoralists, Egyptian port-workers, textile, glass, soap and ceramic producers.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“With lived knowledge of an area the reading of aerial images is undertaken not from the top down as intelligence analysts do but from the ground up.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“The Haganah acted according to the notorious Plan Dalet finalised on 10 March 1948, which included instructions to ‘capture, clear, destroy’ Palestinian villages and expel their population.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

“The political and psychological foundations of the genocide that followed were not born out of the 7 October attack but had been gradually put in place throughout more than a century of colonization, and eight decades of Jewish supremacy and apartheid.”
― Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide