The territory of Gaza is reduced by a buffer zone surrounding the border and a broad axis running through the center.
According to Al Jazeera’s Sanad Verification Bureau, Israel has “systematically destroyed neighboring areas” to create a buffer zone and a dividing axis, taking over about 32% of the Gaza Strip.
This does not include the Philadelphia Corridor area on the Egyptian border, which Israel declared control on Thursday.
The complete destruction of Gaza occurred quickly and slowly through airstrikes, artillery strikes, and bulldozers.
“There is no place safe in Gaza and life with human dignity is almost impossible,” said Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
“Even if people are able to return home, many people no longer have a home to go to.”
According to the United Nations, about 85% of the Gaza Strip’s population, or 1.9 million people, have become refugees. This month alone, half of them have become refugees.
During the Nakba in 1948, approximately 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages by Zionist gangs to create the state of Israel.
More than 36,000 Palestinians have been murdered since October 7, more than double the number already killed between 1947 and 1949. Many more people are thought to have died from the rubble and destruction.
Sanad’s analysis of satellite images showed a destruction rate of 80 to 90 percent across the 120 square kilometers (46 square miles) occupied by Israel.
Since Israel’s attack on Gaza is not yet over, the territory of Gaza may shrink further.
A map created by Sanad shows Gaza’s border pushing inward, with a 6.5 km (4 mi) long, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide band running across the center of the Juhor ad-Dik region, known as the Nezarim axis.
It also confirmed the depth of destruction and demolition wrought by Israeli forces in the border areas and central Gaza.
Areas of the embattled and besieged region have been “completely demolished and demolished” and “clearance operations have taken place in a regular pattern” to turn what the UN once called a “danger zone” into a buffer zone, according to the analysis.
In the north, areas of destruction committed by Israeli forces in the city of Beit Hanoon extend 2.5 km (1.5 miles) from the Gaza border, 5 km (3.1 miles) and 3 km (1.9 miles) in Beit Lahiya. appeared to have been eroded. miles) from Jabalia Camp.
Destruction in the Bureij refugee camp and Maghazi camp reached 1.7 km (1 mile) and 2 km (1.2 miles) from the border, respectively.
The southern region has suffered the most damage so far.
The Kissufim and Bani Suhaila districts, east of Khan Younis, were destroyed up to 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) respectively from the border.
In the city of Rafah, destruction stretched 5.1 kilometers (3.2 miles) from the border to the As-Salam district.
The Israeli military has claimed it is trying to disarm Hamas, but has provided little indication or verifiable evidence that its efforts are having a strategic impact.
On January 23, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the United States opposes any permanent change in the territorial composition of the Gaza Strip and rejects the permanent displacement of the Gaza Strip’s population.
However, extensive demolition and removal work continues. Israel had previously requested 100 D9 bulldozers to expand and accelerate the establishment of the buffer zone.
“These findings and facts reveal the colonialist methodology with which the Israeli military is working by shrinking the Gaza area, creating new borders within its borders and imposing them as a new reality in and around the besieged Gaza Strip,” Sanad said.
