Revealed On 9 Oct 2026
Gaza Metropolis – Greater than 80 p.c of Gaza’s buildings have been broken or destroyed since Israel launched its struggle on the besieged enclave in October 2023, in keeping with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, turning entire neighbourhoods into rubble and wiping out a lot of its infrastructure.
For generations, Gaza’s streets, markets, colleges, hospitals and public areas shaped the backdrop to on a regular basis life. They have been locations the place individuals labored, studied, shopped, met family and friends, and constructed reminiscences.
Most of the metropolis’s acquainted landmarks additionally carried a for much longer historical past, reflecting Gaza’s hundreds of years as a crossroads of various civilisations.
The struggle has additionally modified the face of Gaza by damaging or destroying lots of these historic and recognisable landmarks.
UNESCO has verified harm to 164 cultural websites since October 2023, together with 128 buildings of historic or creative curiosity, 14 non secular websites, 9 monuments, eight archaeological websites, two museums and three depositories of movable cultural property.
Amongst them are the Nice Omari Mosque, Gaza’s oldest mosque, Qasr al-Basha, the traditional Samaritan Bathhouse, al-Qissariya Market and the Church of Saint Porphyrius advanced.
A few of these locations have been decreased to ruins, whereas others stay standing however closely broken. The destruction has altered not solely particular person buildings however the streets and neighbourhoods round them, eradicating landmarks that when helped individuals recognise and navigate their metropolis.
This picture collection contrasts archive pictures of a few of Gaza’s most recognisable streets, markets and public buildings with new images taken three years into the struggle, exhibiting how these acquainted locations have modified after years of bombardment and destruction.
