Satellite images taken on March 23 (Plant Labs)

Satellite images - taken last Saturday - showed massive destruction affecting entire residential blocks in the Hamad Residential City in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and eyewitnesses likened the scenes to destruction “after an atomic bomb was dropped.”

The pictures reveal the total or partial destruction of more than 32 residential buildings in the city, which consists of only 53 residential buildings, and the maximum height of its buildings is 5 floors.

The footage also shows extensive bulldozing inside this city, in addition to the presence of a number of vehicles in its vicinity.

The correspondent of the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" - who accompanied the occupation army in Khan Yunis - reported in a report published on the 14th of this month that after about 11 days of fighting, it appears that Hamad Town will no longer be habitable, like most of the places that the Israeli army has entered. In Gaza, according to the newspaper.

Atomic bomb

Last February, the newspaper also used aerial photographs before and after the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, to indicate the extent of the massive destruction caused by the Israeli army, describing the scenes of destruction as similar to what occurred after the dropping of an atomic bomb.

She said that residents, military officials and journalists described scenes of massive destruction, with one of them (who she did not name) saying after visiting northern Gaza, “It is like after the atomic bomb was dropped.”

She added that accurately estimating the destruction is a difficult task due to the continuing war, and since the occupation army imposes restrictions on the entry of journalists, but it is possible to create a map of the destruction using satellite data, which shows that at least half of the buildings in the Strip are likely to have been damaged or damaged. Destroyed, according to American researchers.

It is noteworthy that the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a continuous Israeli aggression since October 7, 2023, which has caused major destruction to housing and infrastructure, and has also caused the death and injury of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, most of them women and children, and an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis, according to international reports. And internationalism.

Source: Al Jazeera