This report is presented within an exceptional documentary and legal context. It examines a recurring pattern of grave incidents involving the complete or near-complete disappearance of the bodies of victims of bombardment in the Gaza Strip. These incidents are no longer confined to individual testimonies or isolated field accounts; they are supported by consistent medical statements, records of rescue teams, and official statistical data issued by the Civil Defence in Gaza. Together, this evidence reveals a complex field phenomenon that may be described as the “physical erasure of the human body” resulting from the use of munitions with extreme thermal and blast-pressure effects in populated civilian areas.

This report has several concurrent aims: to present verifiable facts concerning the total or partial disintegration of bodies following air strikes; to explain the technical and medical dimensions associated with the mechanisms of explosion, combustion, and pressure inside buildings and enclosed spaces; and to set out the direct humanitarian consequences for families deprived of the ability to identify their relatives, bury them, and formally establish their deaths through ordinary procedures. It also provides a preliminary legal characterization of these acts as conduct affecting the very essence of the protection afforded to civilians in armed conflict and raising a reasonable suspicion that serious international crimes have been committed. Such crimes may extend beyond unlawful killing to the obliteration