Palestinians in Gaza are facing apocalyptic landscape The ceasefire halted Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave for more than 15 months, causing severe damage.

Across Gaza, refugee camps are scattered between cities and piles of rubble stretch as far as the eye can see.

Israel is being criticized by critics for launching a scorched-earth campaign to destroy the fabric of life in Gaza. Review before two global courtsincluding the crime of genocide.

International rights groups say the massive destruction is part of a wider pattern of extermination and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a charge Israel denies. The groups challenged Israel’s position that the damage was caused by military activity.

A United Nations assessment of satellite images shows that as of December 1, 2024, more than 60,000 buildings have been destroyed and more than 20,000 buildings have been severely damaged across Gaza.

Israel has also established buffer zones about a kilometer inside the Gaza fence, as well as within the Nezarim corridor that bisects northern Gaza, and along the Philadelphi corridor, a stretch of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt.

Large tracts of land in these areas were razed to the ground.