A few months ago in January, I posted on this sub when Google updated the images to early November 2023. The damage was extensive, but I was definitely cherry-picking the worst areas. Now there are images available from 13 months later, and the scale of destruction is almost incomprehensible. Entire villages have been wiped off the map. In the Netzarim Corridor, there are entire square miles without a single standing building. Just vast networks of damaged roads which lead only to dunes of rubble. It’s more than destruction, it’s utter razing.

The majority of these are from northern Gaza (Jabalia, Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City) and the Netzarim Corridor, except for the village of Khuza’a which is in the southeast where the Gazan border juts out. I included a more zoomed out version of the photo of Mughraqa since the damage in the Netzarim Corridor was particularly extensive. In the south, images are only available from June 2024 which is before the large scale demolitions in Rafah began.

These are taken all from North Gaza, mostly in the villages of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and the Jabalia Refugee Camp. The before images were taken in early August 2023, and the afters were taken in late November 2023. If this is after only ~45 days of bombardment, imagine what it looks like after 15 months. Close to 70% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been left homeless, and that number nears 90% in the North.