New satellite images show: Gaza City neighborhoods have already been destroyed

Two weeks into the IDF's operation to take over Gaza City, satellite images show that most of the urban spaces in the neighborhoods of Shujaiyeh, Zeitoun and Tuffah have already been destroyed in recent weeks. Local rescue services told Haaretz that if urgent steps are not taken to rehabilitate the area, humanitarian systems could collapse completely

Even before the plan to occupy Gaza City began to materialize, satellite images reveal that in recent weeks the IDF has destroyed large parts of the city and other areas in the northern Gaza Strip. The images from Planet Labs PBC show areas of the city on July 17 and then again on August 25. In the neighborhoods of Shujaiyeh, Zeitoun and Tuffah, most of the urban space appears to have been flattened by the IDF, with many buildings that were intact in the early images appearing completely destroyed in the later ones.

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