Gaza: the record ·
Gaza in ruins: displacement and destruction in numbers
By October 2025, UN satellite analysis found 81 percent of all structures in Gaza damaged or destroyed. Nearly everyone in Gaza has been forced from their home, many of them again and again.
Seen from space
The UN Satellite Centre, UNOSAT, compares satellite images of every building in Gaza. Its assessment of 11 October 2025 found about 81 percent of all structures damaged: 123,464 destroyed, 17,116 severely damaged and 33,857 moderately damaged. An estimated 320,622 housing units were damaged.
A people on the move
According to the UN, around nine in ten of Gaza's 2.1 million people have been displaced, most of them several times, under evacuation orders covering most of the Strip. Families live in tents and ruined schools, without running water or sanitation.
Destroying what makes life possible
Homes, hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, churches, bakeries, water plants and farmland were destroyed. The UN Commission of Inquiry counts deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group among the acts of genocide it found Israel has committed.
Watch NAZA
NAZA is Israeli military slang for collateral damage: the number of civilians an officer is allowed to kill in a strike. In this documentary, 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, many from the army's most prestigious units, explain how that number was set, approved and exceeded in Gaza. What they describe is not a tragic accident of war but a system: targets tracked to their family homes, families watched for days, strikes approved knowing children were inside.
In cinemas now, and free worldwide on theguardian.com after the cinema run.
