Al-Mawasi in Rafah in 2023 (left) and 2026, with huge tented camps lining much of the shoreline. Composite: Google
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants.
The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago.
They show huge tented camps lining much of the shoreline, often within a few metres of the sea. Gaza’s once busy main port, now badly damaged and empty of fishing boats, is surrounded by makeshift accommodation. Any available open space in Gaza City is packed with shacks, tents and huts.
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More than 2.1 million displaced people are living in tents and temporary shelters in Gaza, where about 82% of structures – roughly 200,000 buildings – have been damaged, with about two-thirds of those destroyed, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa.
A recent UN assessment estimated that the number of destroyed structures across Gaza had increased by 9% since the declaration of a ceasefire in October 2025.
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Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. [Noam Moskowitz – Knesset – Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]
Hamas described on Tuesday evening the approval by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of a plan to ban essential services to UNRWA offices as a “serious escalation”.
In a statement, the movement said, “The approval by the so-called Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of a plan to cut essential services, including water and electricity, to UNRWA offices is a dangerous escalation. It is part of a systematic criminal campaign to undermine its humanitarian role for the Palestinian people.”
Hamas called on the international community, the United Nations, and its institutions “to take responsibility and put an end to the systematic targeting of UNRWA by Israel, and to force the occupation to reverse its illegal measures against the agency.”
The movement also urged support for UNRWA to continue “its humanitarian mission to serve and assist the refugees of our people, especially amid the unprecedented humanitarian disaster caused by the occupation in Gaza.”
Earlier on Monday, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee approved sending a bill to cut water and electricity supplies to a UNRWA offices for a vote.
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A view of the Shujaiya neighborhood after rainfall that flooded tents and left puddles of water and mud throughout the area in Gaza City, Gaza on November 25, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]
Adnan Abu Hasna, media adviser to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the agency has procured large quantities of food, medicine and winter shelter materials — including hundreds of thousands of tents, tarpaulins, blankets and clothing — but has been unable to deliver them to the Gaza Strip due to Israeli restrictions on aid entry.
Speaking to journalist Suzanne Sharara on the Extra News channel, Abu Hasna said the tents currently in use across Gaza are worn out and provide little protection from strong winds, heavy rainfall or rising tides. He noted that thousands of tents have been erected only five metres from the shoreline, leaving displaced families exposed to severe weather.
He added that UNRWA has been waiting for six months for permission to bring the supplies into Gaza, but Israel has allowed in only a fraction of what is needed, despite the “critical humanitarian situation” facing nearly 1.5 million Palestinians who are living in the open or in makeshift, damaged tents.
According to Abu Hasna, conditions in the Gaza Strip remain catastrophic. Around 9,400 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, the health system has collapsed and water sources have become contaminated — problems now compounded by winter rains and flooding.
He stressed that Gaza’s geography is predominantly sandy, with Israel controlling roughly 60 per cent of its territory, leaving more than two million Palestinians crowded into a very limited area amid extensive destruction and rubble.
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Children ride bike as daily struggle of Palestinians living in war-torn Nuseirat continues in Nuseirat, Gaza on November 01, 2025. [Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency]
The UN agencies, including UNICEF, UNRWA, World Health Organization (WHO), and partners, in collaboration with the Palestinian Health Ministry, are launching an integrated catch-up campaign for routine immunization, nutrition, and growth monitoring in Gaza to reach 44,000 children cut off from essential life-saving services by two years of conflict, Anadolu reports.
According to a joint statement released on Wednesday, the campaign will be implemented in three rounds to reach children with three doses of pentavalent, polio, rotavirus, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and two doses of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
The first round of the campaign will take place from Nov. 9 to Nov. 18.
An estimated “1 in 5 children under three years of age are either zero-dose or have missed vaccinations because of the conflict,” increasing the risk of disease outbreaks. The catch-up campaign aims, the statement said, to provide these children with routine childhood vaccines that protect against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, polio, rotavirus, and pneumonia.
“To help address the devastating impacts of the conflict on children’s health and nutrition, UNICEF and partners will also screen these children for malnutrition and ensure those identified with malnutrition receive treatment and ongoing follow-up. Children with complications due to moderate and severe acute malnutrition will be treated at WHO-supported inpatient stabilization centers,” it said.
“After two years of relentless violence that claimed the lives of more than 20,000 children in the Gaza Strip, we finally have an opportunity to protect those who survived,” Jonathan Veitch, UNICEF special representative in Palestine, said. “Vaccinating every child, and supporting their health and nutrition, is not just a humanitarian intervention; it is a moral imperative.”
UNICEF has delivered all vaccines, syringes, cold chain equipment and nutrition supplies to Gaza, with vaccinations set to take place at 149 health facilities and 10 mobile vehicles, according to the statement. More than 450 health workers and support staff have been trained.
“This immunization campaign is a lifeline, protecting children’s health and restoring hope for the future,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, said for his part.
The agencies stressed that the campaign’s success depends on the full respect of the ceasefire to allow safe access to vaccination and nutrition services. The onset of harsh winter conditions makes this campaign even more urgent, as deadly but preventable childhood diseases spread across the Gaza Strip, they warned.
Phases two and three of the campaign, which aim to provide the children with second and third doses of the vaccines, are planned for December 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Before the conflict, Gaza maintained 54 immunization facilities and ranked “among the top” globally with an overall 98% vaccination coverage rate for children. Today, the statement said, 31 facilities are no longer operational after being damaged or destroyed in indiscriminate attacks, while the routine vaccination coverage rate has dropped below 70%.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini holds a press conference at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2025, in New York City, USA. [Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency]
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, announced on Tuesday that the agency has begun offering online lessons aimed at reaching around 300,000 children in the Gaza Strip.
Lazzarini explained that UNRWA is expanding its Back to Learning programme in Gaza through a combination of online and in-person education, despite the difficult humanitarian conditions in the territory.
He noted that “more than 25,000 children have now joined our ‘Temporary Learning Spaces’,” stressing, “We will continue increasing the number of such locations.”
Lazzarini emphasised that “literacy and education serve as an antidote to despair and trauma” experienced by children in Gaza.
He praised the efforts of thousands of UNRWA teachers and staff who continue their work despite daily challenges.
He added that the continuation of these programmes reflects UNRWA’s success in fulfilling its humanitarian and developmental mission towards Palestinian refugees under the most difficult circumstances.
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