Beit Hanoun or Beit Hanun was a Palestinian city on the northeast edge of the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 52,237 in 2017. As a result of the ongoing Gaza war, The town has been entirely depopulated, and virtually all its structures have either been destroyed or rendered unusable due to extreme damage.

On September 26, 2024, we discovered documents and a video, which were published on a Israeli miltary forum, and is about a proposal by an retired Israeli general, Giora Eiland. Besides recommendations to change the military strategy on Gaza, he proposed a plan aimed to force Hamas to choose: starve or surrender. The plan was silently adopted by Netanyahu in the first week of October that year, and implemented by the armed war belligerent to the whole of Northern Gaza on November 6, 2024.

However, the 'starve or surrender' was no other than conflating approach, as it was about the blockade of all supplies targeting everyone who remained in the north, including in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun. We also discovered that the Israeli war belligerent used the method of the Dahiya doctrine in order to achieve either the surrender by Hamas or people turning against Hamas. Both failed. The massive bombardments and demolitions have led to having resorted to the crime of extermination.

On July 12, 2025, Israeli "Defense" Minister Israel Katz shared an aerial photo that showed the destruction of Beit Hanoun, boasting of "leveling it to the ground." He commented on the photo on X and said: "After Rafah and Beit Hanoun ... there is no refuge for terrorism.”

The photo, taken from the air, shows vast areas of rubble and devastation, with nothing left in Beit Hanoun -- which borders the southern frontier with colonized historic Palestine -- except scattered ruins and destroyed buildings, depicting the scale of the disaster that has struck the area.