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The aerial images showed entire residential neighborhoods disappeared and vast urban areas reduced to layers of rubble and debris. The updated imagery reveals a dramatic transformation of Gaza’s urban landscape, with destruction extending beyond individual buildings to entire residential blocks, leaving vast empty areas where densely populated neighborhoods once stood. The images provide a broader view of the destruction across neighborhoods and residential blocks, allowing comparisons between Gaza’s current urban landscape and the period before the war and showing the extent of areas that have been destroyed. The images come as the effects of the destruction continue to threaten Palestinian lives even after the ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025. Since the ceasefire, dozens of buildings damaged by Israeli attacks have collapsed on residents, while Palestinians face a severe shortage of shelter amid continued restrictions on the entry of temporary housing units, or caravans. 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