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As Palestinians return home
Jan
Palestinians return home
After the ceasefire that halted Israel‘s airstrikes on the beleaguered enclave for more than 15 months, Palestinians in Gaza are facing an apocalyptic scene of destruction.
Mounds of rubble stretch all the way throughout Gaza, where densely populated refugee camps are dotted between cities.
Two international courts are considering charges that Israel has carried out a campaign of scorched earth to destroy Gaza’s way of life, including the crime of genocide.
Israel disputes the allegations made by international rights organisations that the widespread devastation was a part of a larger pattern of elimination and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The organisations contest Israel’s claim that military action caused the devastation.
According to a United Nations assessment based on satellite images, as of December 1, 2024, the war has destroyed over 60,000 structures in Gaza and seriously damaged over 20,000 more.
Israel also carved out a buffer zone about one kilometre inside Gaza from its fence, as well as within the Netzarim Corridor that bisects north Gaza from the south, and along the Philadelphi Corridor, a stretch of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt.
Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground attacks in Rafah
