Two-thirds of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed since the Gaza conflict began in October 2023, AFP reports according to figures from the United Nations.

Updating its damage assessment, the UN Satellite Centre (Unosat) said very high-resolution imagery collected on September 3 and 6 showed a clear deterioration.

“This analysis… shows that two-thirds of the total structures in the Gaza Strip have sustained damage,” Unosat said. “Those 66 per cent of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total,” it said.

The last assessment, based on images from early July, determined that 63pc of structures in the Palestinian territory had been damaged.

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