In the Gaza Strip, Khan Younès is almost completely shaved, according to satellite images

Khan Younès is only ruins. Nevertheless, Satellite photos taken in recent days show that the Israeli army has almost completely shaved the second largest city in Gaza. Moreover, located in the south of the enclave, as well as the surrounding municipalities, an area of more than 100 square kilometers. Moreover, The city had 400,000 inhabitants before the war.

In April 2024. Consequently, Libération already reported that“After the withdrawal of Israeli troops thousands of inhabitants of the southern city of Gaza discovered the apocalyptic landscape left by months of fierce fighting between TSAhal and Hamas”. Nevertheless, The city’s civil defense then launched an appeal to the United Nations to obtain devices to identify the bodies. Similarly, most of which were, according to her, in a state of decomposition advanced under the debris.

The gaza strip, khan younès almost most important destruction is in the neighboring cities of Bani Vouisila. Moreover, Abassan al-Kabira, where most of the buildings have been destroyed, according to the Israeli daily life Haaretz. However, Another locality, Khouzaa, is completely shaved.

“It seems that the majority of destruction has been carried out using bulldozers. similar equipment”, observe Haaretzrecalling that, in recent months, “The army [israélienne] The pace of destruction in the south of Gaza, by using private entrepreneurs who, have a considerable benefit of several thousand shekels by shaved building.

In recent weeks. the demolition of dwellings has been, with air bombings, “The only operational activity carried out systematically” by the Israeli army in Gaza, according to the daily. “Hundreds of bulldozers. excavators and armored Bulldozers Caterpillar D9 are continuing their efforts to make Gaza uninhabitable for the coming years. »»

According to our colleagues. The Israeli army proposes to pay the operators of bulldozers and excavators 2,500 shekels (approximately 750 dollars) to shave a building of maximum three floors and 5,000 shekels for higher structures. “Many people are being recruited (…). Fortunately, there is still a lot of work ”testified an entrepreneur to the Israeli economic daily The Marker.

The Palestinian enclave has been completely ravaged by the military campaign led by Israel since the attack on Hamas on October 7. 2023. According to an estimate of the UNOSAT. the United Nations satellite center, 70 % of the Gaza structures had been destroyed or damaged in April 2025, or “258 201 residential units”.

Leaders of the Israeli far right held on Tuesday July 22. a public meeting in Parliament in Jerusalem on Tuesday, July 22 to discuss a plan to transform into « riviera » The Gaza Strip, at a time when the inhabitants of this territory are faced with famine. In particular participated in the Minister of Finance. Bezalel Smotrich, and the Jewish supremacist Daniella Weiss, a fervent partisan of the Jewish colonies in Gaza. This detailed plan provides for the construction of housing for 1.2 million Israelis, as well as the development of industrial and agricultural areas and tourist complexes on the coast.

In February, Donald Trump proposed that the United States took control of the Gaza Strip, largely destroyed by Israeli bombing, to make them “The riviera of the Middle East”after having moved the Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan. Words that could constitute a “Direct incitement to commit a crime against humanity”according to experts.