UN monitors have said that about 70 percent of school buildings across Gaza have been damaged. That includes tens of thousands of homes as well as schools, hospitals, mosques and stores. The percentage of damaged buildings in the Khan Younis area nearly doubled in just the first two weeks of Israel’s southern offensive, they said. Israel’s offensive has destroyed over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza and a quarter of buildings in the southern area of Khan Younis, according to an analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, experts in mapping damage during wartime. Here’s a look at what is known so far about Israel’s campaign on Gaza. Last week, however, President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged that Israel was losing international legitimacy for what he called its “indiscriminate bombing.” The Biden administration has quietly continued to supply arms to Israel. 7 cross-border rampage that triggered the war, in which it killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage. Israel vows to press ahead, saying it wants to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities following the militant group’s Oct. With the Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpassing 20,000, the international community is calling for a ceasefire. They say the weapons include 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) “bunker-busters” that have killed hundreds in densely populated areas. But from blast fragments found on-site and analyzes of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are US-made. The Israeli military has said little about what kinds of bombs and artillery it is using in Gaza. It has killed more civilians than the US-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Daesh group. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 20, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. JERUSALEM: The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |