Satellite imagery study conducted by Wall Street Journal came to the conclusion that almost 70 percent of approximately 439 thousand homes in Gaza Strip and about half of all its buildings remain damaged or destroyed Israeli offensive launched on October 7 in response to massacres by Palestinian militias in the south of the country.

Experts consulted by the American newspaper estimate that Israel dropped about 29,000 bombs or airborne munitions on the enclave, destroying churches, mosques, factories, homes, cinemas and schools.

Of these educational centers, two-thirds, about 342, including 70 UN schools, were hit.

Most of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are out of service, and only eight are accepting patients.

According to image analysis by experts at New York University and Oregon State University, the damage is particularly noticeable in the north of the enclave.

There, eight out of ten buildings were damaged or destroyed, a percentage greater than the destruction caused by the Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden in February 1945.

In percentage terms and citing World Bank estimates, as of December 12, 77 percent of the enclave’s health facilities were damaged or destroyed, as well as 77 percent of municipal services (such as parks, courts or libraries), 68 percent of communications infrastructure and 76 percent of commercial space.

About 20 percent of the Strip’s cropland remains unused, according to Ohio University experts.

He WSJ extracts the estimate of the number of rounds from the report of the US Office of National Intelligence. Approximately 29 thousand Israeli bombs They far exceed the 3,678 units launched by the US in Iraq from 2004 to 2010.