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Get you up to speed: Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Satellite images reveal extensive destruction across Gaza, nearly three years into the ongoing conflict, with over 74,000 Palestinians reported killed. The United Nations estimates that around 82 percent of structures in Gaza have been damaged, with significant devastation observed in areas such as Rafah and Khan Younis.
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has reported a 9 percent increase in the number of destroyed structures in Gaza since last year’s ceasefire, with approximately 200,000 buildings affected. Furthermore, the governorate of Khan Younis has recorded the highest number of damaged structures at 51,885, according to the UN’s October 2025 assessment.
The United Nations has reported a 9 percent increase in the number of destroyed structures in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect nearly a year ago, as the humanitarian situation deteriorates amidst ongoing conflict. As a response, UNRWA is expected to increase its efforts to provide immediate aid to displaced Palestinians, with a focus on shelter and food security in the wake of this escalating crisis.
What remains unclear — The number of people still unaccounted for beneath the rubble in Gaza has not been confirmed.
Satellite images reveal extensive destruction across Gaza three years into conflict
EXPLAINERNews|Israel-Palestine conflictSatellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
New Google Maps images show the scale of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026
Newly updated Google Maps satellite imagery shows the scale of destruction across the besieged Gaza Strip nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war.
With neighbourhood after neighbourhood reduced to rubble and little left but the faint outlines of main roads, it is now almost impossible to tell one part of Gaza from another. Farmland has been charred, and centuries-old places of worship have been damaged or wiped from the landscape.
A recent assessment by the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) found that the number of destroyed structures across Gaza has increased by 9 percent since a “ceasefire” took effect nearly a year ago. Overall, about 82 percent of structures in Gaza, roughly 200,000 buildings, have been damaged, and about two-thirds of those have been destroyed, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Using satellite images recently released on Google Maps, WTX News compared Gaza before the war with today, from Rafah in the south to North Gaza. The images of Rafah were captured this year while those of northern Gaza date from 2025 and 2024. Drag the slider to the left to see what remains of some of Gaza’s neighbourhoods.
Tal as-Sultan, Rafah
Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, became a major refuge for Palestinians displaced from across Gaza, but about one million people were forced to flee the area after Israeli military operations began there in May 2024. Most had already been displaced multiple times and were forced to move towards Khan Younis, a city just north of Rafah, and Deir el-Balah in central Gaza as UNRWA shelters in Rafah were emptied.
In western Rafah, the once densely populated Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood has been almost entirely wiped out. Satellite images showed little more than sand where homes once stood.
Al-Mawasi, Rafah
Al-Mawasi, once a sparsely populated coastal strip of sand and farmland stretching along the coast of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, was declared a “humanitarian zone” by Israel early in the war. It told displaced Palestinians to seek safety there. In May 2024 as Israel prepared to invade the city of Rafah, then-US President Joe Biden warned: “If they go into Rafah, … I’m not supplying the weapons.” Israel went ahead with the operation, pushing hundreds of thousands more people into al-Mawasi, which it has since bombed repeatedly.
The latest satellite images show the once largely empty area now covered in tents and packed with families who have nowhere else to go.
Indonesian Istiqlal Mosque, Khan Younis
Khan Younis recorded the highest number of damaged structures of any governorate in UNOSAT’s October 2025 assessment with 51,885 structures. The governorate was also one of Gaza’s main agricultural hubs, and Khan Younis has recorded the largest total area of damaged cropland in the Gaza Strip. The Indonesian Istiqlal Mosque in the Ma’an area of Khan Younis was destroyed during the war after being reopened less than two years earlier.
Port of Gaza, Gaza City
Gaza governorate recorded the second-highest number of damaged structures in UNOSAT’s October 2025 assessment at 51,530 with 41,663 in Gaza City alone.
Among the worst-hit sites has been Gaza City’s port, the heart of a fishing industry that once supported about 110,000 people. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said the port has been severely damaged and most of its fishing boats destroyed.
Jabalia refugee camp, North Gaza
The North Gaza governorate had the highest proportion of damaged cropland in the Strip with 94 percent damaged by July 2025, according to the UN’s Office of Humanitarian Affairs. During the war, Beit Lahiya, Jabalia and other communities in the north were subjected to repeated Israeli military operations, forced displacements and severe restrictions to humanitarian aid. Jabalia refugee camp, the largest of Gaza’s eight camps, has been destroyed with satellite images showing entire blocks reduced to rubble.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 175,000 have been injured. The true toll is likely higher because many people are still missing beneath the rubble. Since the October “ceasefire” last year, more than 1,400 people have been killed and almost 5,000 injured.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
To downplay the genocide, the israelis claim there’s only 20,000 people left in north Gaza, says
@MahaGaza
: the real number exceeds 400,000
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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