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For another comparison, there's also an aerial view from a similar perspective, though at lower altitude since it's from a drone photographer, here on Facebook from 2019: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
The drone photo is closer to 31.5057, 34.4619 whereas the plane photo is closer to the coast.
Can just barely see it but the massive destruction in Gaza City's eastern neighborhoods such as Shejaiya and Tuffah is visible in the background of the photo. When compared with a satellite image taken a week after the war started, can see thousands of homes have been razed.
Thank you for sharing this, Jake.
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
The death toll in Gaza now stands, officially, at 60,000. Experts say this is a significant undercount. How many have gone unrecorded? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads.
I spoke to the @washingtonpost.com's podcast this week about our reporting on starvation across the Gaza Strip. The number of people killed by malnutrition or starvation after four months of Israeli blockade has now risen to 154. 89 are children. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Podcast Episode · Post Reports · 28/07/2025 · 23m
Almost a week after Israel promised to increase aid to Gaza, UN says situation on the ground is mostly unchanged. A former Israeli military official described a “total breakdown of order” caused by IDF campaign. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Israel said it would allow more food to enter Gaza and provide secure corridors for humanitarian aid. But U.N. officials say almost nothing has changed.
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
Medical Aid for Palestinians says that Baby Zainab, on the right, has now died. Her mother "couldn’t find the medical care Zainab needed here in Gaza, nor was she allowed medical evacuation, as her mother was hoping for. More children will die, one by one, as this madness continues”.
Volunteer surgeon Prof. Nick Maynard on the malnutrition he witnessed inside a Gaza neonatal unit: "'Skin and bones’ doesn't do it justice. I had tears in my eyes seeing how unbelievably thin these children are. A doctor who tried to bring formula feed in, had it confiscated by Israeli authorities."
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
