Half of buildings in the north of the Gaza Sector is destroyed by war - the media (photo)

According to American researchers, they were able to determine the number of damaged buildings, but could not determine how much they were injured. During the battles in the northern part of the Gaza sector, 46,000 houses, or more than 50% of all construction, were destroyed. This was reported by Financial Times with reference to the data of American researchers who have analyzed the latest satellite images of the enclave.

According to the newspaper, from 40% to 51% of buildings (18-23 thousand buildings) was destroyed in the northern gas, from 39% to 50% in the south, in the area , 6%, in the area of ​​Khan-Yunis-from 7. 8%to 11. 6%, in the Rafach district-from 4. 9%to 7. 8%. According to FT, Jamen Van Dan Khuk's study of Oregon University and Cher Core from the Cuny postgraduate center in New York used radar signals of the Sentinel-1 European Space Agency Satellite.

Cher told ABC News that their command uses a radar to determine any changes in buildings in the Gaza Sector. According to him, since no construction was carried out, the only changes in buildings occurred as a result of damage. "If you go to the room and talk, then there is no furniture, no carpets, nor something else in the room, and you will hear echo," - explained Cher when he was asked how to explain how their research was conducted with the use of radar.

He said that a person remembers this echo and returns to the room, says again, listens. "Remembering your old echo, you . . . can find a change. We are looking for a similar change in echoes of radar waves," the researcher notes. Applying this method using Sentinel-1 radar signals, the researchers said they were able to determine the number of damaged buildings, but failed to determine how much they were affected.

Cher and Van Dan Khuk say they worked a lot, using these methods to determine structural damage during the Civil War in Syria, the War in Ukraine and previous conflicts in the Gaza Sector. At the same time, the researchers were able to draw an analogy of what happened in gas, only with Ukrainian Mariupol and Syrian Aleppo. "The only other analogues that I think we have considered in terms of scale . . . a wide scale of losses," are the first two cities that slept to me, "Cher said.

In this case, Van Dan Khuk emphasized that he distinguishes gas from any other point in the world. "It is a very compact habitat and it is enclosed in containers. We apply to the map what is not moving, but where people are in this truly complex landscape of unpredictable missile attacks, unpredictable attacks, unpredictable help, electricity, water . . . A terrible situation, "he said. We will remind, since November 24 in the Gaza sector there is a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas.