An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Verification Agency reveals that the Israeli army has encroached upon approximately 32% of Gaza’s territory through the systematic demolition of neighborhoods, on Friday May 31st, 2024.
This has been executed to establish a buffer zone and a central axis bisecting the enclave. Notably, this encroachment excludes the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egyptian border, which ‘Israel’ has recently claimed control over.
The relentless destruction of Gaza’s areas has been marked by rapid and continuous air bombardment, artillery attacks, and bulldozing operations.
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, underscores the growing peril within Gaza, stating that the conditions render a dignified human existence “nearly impossible.”
Consequently, approximately 85% of Gaza’s population, amounting to 1.9 million individuals, have been displaced, with half of this displacement occurring within just one month.
The magnitude of this devastation surpasses even the events of the Nakba in 1948, with over 36,000 Palestinians reported killed since October 7.
Sanad’s analysis of satellite imagery reveals destruction rates between 80-90% in the areas seized by ‘Israel’. Gaza’s boundaries have been forcefully redrawn inward, and a substantial tract of land has been bifurcated by Israel’s actions.
The Israeli military’s extensive demolition has been particularly concentrated in border regions and central Gaza, where entire neighborhoods have been utterly obliterated.
According to Government Media Office in Gaza, 190 government headquarters were destroyed by the Israeli airstrikes or tanks’ attacks. (109, 604, 87000) of schools and universities, mosques, and housing unites, respectively, were completely destroyed.
While (316, 200, 297,000) schools and universities, mosques, and housing unites, respectively, were partially demolished by the Israeli army war machine.
206 archaeological and heritage sites in addition to 3 churches were also destroyed and affected by the Israeli bombardment.
In addition, 160 health institutions were targeted by the Israeli occupation; 33 hospitals have been rendered out of service by the Israeli attacks, 55 of health centers that the occupation took over are now out of service.
The preliminary statistics of estimated losses caused by the war amounts to 33 billions.
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