Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip for a year and ten months has caused massive destruction and very possibly unprecedented In the Gazatí region. And to the unsustainable number of dead – according to the Gazati authorities – more than 60,000, many of them children, it is added the total and absolute destruction of many territories that up to two years had a totally different reality.
This destruction It has been illustrated by Google in one of its stars applications, Google Mapswith which you can see satellite images of virtually any corner of the world. Now, and after several months, the images of the strip have been updated, and they cannot be more revealing and bleak.
To raise awareness of the level of destruction facing the strip, doctors without borders has shared with a post in X the images updated by Google Maps, which accompanies with a clear and forceful message: “The annihilation is total. Israeli authorities are carrying out a genocide in Gaza.”
The medical-sanitary organization has been one of the main speakers of the massacre in Gaza, and that one of those that has denounced in a more vehement way what is happening in the region. Thus, they denounce the deprivation of help, mainly food -which is causing a famine that the life of tens of thousands of people could be collected-, water, medical or fuel supplies, in addition to the forced displacement of the Gazatí population.
Thus, in Google Maps images you can clearly appreciate Notable differences between August 2023 and June and December 2024with almost absolute destruction in hospitals, universities, roads, etc.
In data, doctors without borders denounces that, of 436,000 homes (they suppose 92% of the total), 160,000 have been destroyed and 276,000 damaged. As for hospitals, the organization states that up to 94% of the health centers have been reached by Israeli attacks (61% of primary care centers are not operational), and based on WHO data, They only partially work half of the hospitals.
They also ensure that 70% of infrastructure have been completely destroyed or damaged, while More than 2,300 educational centers, such as nurseries or universities have also been destroyed or damaged.
Finally, they point out that 87.8 % of the Gaza Strip is currently subject to forced displacement orders or It has become a militarized area of Israel’s army, which implies the obligatory mobilization of millions of people in a very small space.
