Corey Scher, a mapping expert at the CUNY Graduate Center, made the dire remark after analysing data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite alongside Oregon State University’s Jamon Van Den Hoek, the Associated Press news agency reports.

They found that over two-thirds of all structures in northern Gaza have been destroyed since the war began, while in the southern Khan Younis area, a quarter of all buildings have been destroyed in that same period.

“Gaza is now a different colour from space,” Scher told AP. “It’s a different texture.”

A satellite view of an explosion near the coast of Gaza amid Israeli airstrikes in October. — Reuters
A satellite view of an explosion near the coast of Gaza amid Israeli airstrikes in October. — Reuters

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