Israel continues demolishing buildings in Gaza a year after ceasefire

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Satellite imagery indicates that Israeli forces have continued demolishing buildings in Rafah and other parts of Gaza since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal reached a year ago. The destruction has left the southern city, once home to roughly 250,000 people, extensively razed.

It’s perhaps the most dramatic wound inflicted on the Gaza Strip by Israel’s military campaign over the past three years: the city of Rafah, once home to a quarter million people, has been erased. Satellite imagery shows the Israeli military has systematically razed the southern city and other towns and districts to the ground and in some places ploughed away the rubble. Demolition, using bulldozers and explosives, has continued unabated since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal reached a year ago,...