Israel has taken over some 32 per cent of Gaza’s area by “systematically demolishing neighbourhoods” to create a buffer zone and a central axis dividing it, according to Al Jazeera’s Sanad Verification Agency.

This does not include the area of the Philadelphi Corridor on Egypt’s border, which Israel declared it had taken control of on Thursday.

Sanad’s analysis of satellite imagery showed 80-90pc destruction rates in the 120sq.km Israel has taken.

A map constructed by Sanad shows that Gaza’s boundaries have been pushed inward and a 1.5km-wide strip that runs 6.5km across the middle in the Juhor ad-Dik area, known as the Nezarim axis.

The analysis shows that areas in the embattled and besieged strip have been “completely bulldozed and demolished” and that “removal operations took place in a regular pattern” to turn what the UN once called “danger zones” into a buffer zone.

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