UN says 66 percent of Gaza buildings damaged since October 7
The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) says very high-resolution imagery collected on September 3 and 6 showed two-thirds of the total structures in the Gaza Strip were damaged.
“Those 66 percent of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total,” it said. The last assessment, based on images from early July, determined that 63 percent of structures in the Palestinian territory had been damaged.
The damage now included “52,564 structures that have been destroyed; 18,913 severely damaged; 35,591 possibly damaged structures; and 56,710 moderately affected”, UNOSAT revealed.
Gaza City has been notably affected, with 36,611 structures destroyed, it added.
One killed, 11 wounded in Israeli air raid on northern Gaza
The Palestinian Civil Defence says its rescue teams recovered one body from the rubble of a house in the Jabalia refugee camp. It also said 11 people, including eight children, had been wounded in the Israeli attack, while two others remain missing.
‘Really rocky day’: Israel hits residential buildings in central Gaza
It has been a really rocky day for civilians across the entire Gaza Strip. Multiple residential buildings were hit in central Gaza. Israeli fighter jets also carried out attacks in northern Gaza, particularly in the Jabalia refugee camp – where a residential home was struck without any warning.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military dropped leaflets in central Gaza, warning people against making any attempts to return to northern Gaza, which has been heavily bombarded by Israeli forces over the past year.
Palestinians carry a wounded man at the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip
