After extensive drafting negotiations between the United States and the United Arab Emirates, the United Nations Security Council is finally prepared to vote on a ceasefire resolution.
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Since Monday, there has been a constant delay as the UAE tried to avert the possibility of another US veto.
Experts say the war in Gaza was among the worst in history
Experts believe that Israel’s military campaign was among the most destructive in military history.
More than two thirds of the buildings in northern Gaza and 25% of the buildings in the southern Khan Younis area have been destroyed by Israel’s offensive.
That’s according to Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University, who are both experts in mapping damage during wartime, based on their analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data.
“Space and Gaza now have distinct colors. It has a distinct texture,” Mr. Scher, who has mapped devastation in multiple combat zones, remarked.
More damage has been caused by the offensive than by the Russian-inflicted demolition of Aleppo from 2012 to 2016 or, in comparison, the Allied bombing of Germany during World War II. Mariupol, Ukraine, was destroyed by Russia last year.
US military historian Robert Pape stated that, between 1942 and 1945, the allies attacked 51 significant German cities and towns, destroying between 40 and 50 percent of their urban areas.
This, he claimed, amounted to 10% of Germany’s buildings, as opposed to over 33% of those destroyed in Gaza, a much densely populated region that is only 360 square kilometers in size.
Mr. Pape claimed that, “Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.”
It currently occupies a comfortable place in the top quartile of the most destructive bombing campaigns in history.
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