Human rights group Euro-Med Monitor has said Palestinians in Gaza have less space than detainees in the notorious US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera reports.

“After 21 months of continuous Israeli assault, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are confined to less than 15 per cent of the enclave,” the Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement.

“Approximately 2.3 million people are crammed into suffocating conditions, each with less space than that allocated to detainees in Guantanamo Bay.”

Gaza’s population is trapped under constant bombardment and a blockade, deprived of water, food, shelter and healthcare, and effectively barred from returning to their destroyed or restricted areas of origin, it added.

“This is part of a deliberate policy that reflects a genocidal process by Israel to uproot the people and erase their physical and demographic presence through mass killing, forced displacement, starvation, and systematic destruction of life.”