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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Satellite images show scale of destruction in Israel’s assault on Gaza</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">AJLabs - October 26, 2023<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><p><b><font size="2"><i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)">Please log on to the website to see the images</span></span></i></font></b> - <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/26/satellite-images-show-scale-of-destruction-in-israels-assault-on-gaza">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/26/satellite-images-show-scale-of-destruction-in-israels-assault-on-gaza</a></p><p><br></p><p>The
Israeli military has destroyed nearly 200,000 housing units, either
completely or partially, since the start of its latest assault on the
Gaza Strip following Hamas's <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/7/what-happened-in-israel-a-breakdown-of-how-the-hamas-attack-unfolded" target="_blank">surprise attack</a> on October 7.</p>
<p>Mohammad Ziyara, the Palestinian minister of public works and
housing, said on Thursday the bombardment has "erased entire families
from the civil registry,", as well as "neighbourhoods and residential
communities".</p>
<p>"[It] also destroyed facilities, including hospitals, places of
worship, bakeries, water filling stations, markets, schools, and
educational and service institutions,” Ziyara added in a statement.</p>
<p>Home to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/23/where-are-gazas-neighbourhoods-destroyed-by-israel">some 2.3 million people,</a> the Gaza Strip covers a tiny area of 365sq km (141sq miles).</p>
<p>According to the <a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-19" target="_blank">UN's humanitarian office</a>,
at least 45 percent of all housing units in the enclave have been
damaged or destroyed in the Israeli attacks. Among the areas hit the
hardest have been Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya, Shujaiya, the neighbourhoods
around the Shati refugee camp, and Abasan al-Kabira in Khan Younis.</p>
<p>Drag the slider to the left to see what remains of some of Gaza's neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>An estimated 1.4 million people in Gaza have been <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker" target="_blank">internally displaced</a> due to the relentless bombardment, with some 629,000 sheltering in 150 UN-designated emergency shelters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel's total blockade on <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/25/gaza-is-out-of-fuel-out-of-time-under-israels-bombardment" target="_blank">fuel</a>
entering the enclave is seriously affecting critical functions in all
hospitals, risking the lives of at least 130 premature babies in
incubators, 1,000 kidney dialysis patients who have had to reduce their
treatment sessions, and front-line ambulance workers who cannot access
the sick when the fuel runs out.</p>
<p>Since 2007, when Hamas came to power, Israel has maintained strict
control over Gaza’s airspace and territorial waters and restricted the
movement of goods and people in and out of the enclave.</p>
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