Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.

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fcortes2 days ago
There are Street View photos that look like they were taken from someone driving down one of the side streets so you can pretty much walk on it. You can see apartment buildings, local shops, people going about their day... It’s heart-wrenching to contrast that life with the current aerial view, with nothing but rubble and destruction.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/31%C2%B016'58.6%22N+34%C2%...

bognition2 days ago
Its really telling to see the destruction limited to where the structures used to be rather than to all of the surrounding green spaces. If the destruction of civilian dwellings was purely an accident you'd expect to see the destruction spread evenly over the area. Instead it looks much more like a prolonged set of surgical strikes to destroy the buildings while preserving as much of the surrounding areas as possible.

For a great example of this, look at this pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZcMbdFcx87PrqoYNA

And here's a pin of where the farms were spared https://maps.app.goo.gl/iZbbTH4iH27FCz4s9

pietervdvn1 day ago
This wasn't done with strikes, but with (remote controlled) bulldozers. https://idfclub.org/remote-controlled-warfare-how-israels-ro...
tyromaniac1 day ago
Wow. So the next Rachel Corinne will be killed by a robot.
ImPostingOnHN2 days ago
They just use bulldozers to flatten whatever the bombs don't. They can drive a bulldozer pretty precisely, especially when they don't care who's in front of it or under it.

Caterpillar even supplies the IDF with bulldozers just for this purpose, which then get up-armored and sent into Palestinian civilian areas to do this (including unmanned versions).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Caterpillar_D9

AuthAuth2 days ago
By the time the bulldozers are there civilians have long moved out of the area.
YZF2 days ago
The buildings were levelled with bulldozers for the most part after the civilians left during combat operations against the tunnel infrastructure and any remaining combatants. Not sure what the "surgical strikes" comment is about. Are you asking why weren't open spaces destroyed or attacked?
a_paddy2 days ago
How does bulldozing a family home have any affect on a tunnel?
myth_drannon1 day ago
Not only tunnels. Almost every house was rigged with explosives, like what happened in Gaza city, entire neighborhoods would explode once the troops arrive. If not rigged then it would be a stash of weapons somewhere in the house or under, you are not going to spend days on each house that is potentially rigged looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately the worst for Gaza will come after the Israeli elections. Israel has 2 years of politically favorable US president to clear out Gaza City once and for all to correct the mistake of 2005 withdrawal.
4gotunameagain2 days ago
An alternative to levelling entire cities to the ground to find tunnels, would be to stop the expanding of the settlers, stop the apartheid within Israel, stop the blockade and starving on Gaza, and try to actually foster peace instead of constant conflict, pain and misery in order to retain power.

This is despicable, inhumane. It is generational trauma that started with the Nazis, now propagated to the poor souls around the new western colony of Israel.

biimugan2 days ago
I don't quite understand your argument here. In your first pin I'm struggling to find a single building that isn't leveled, or at least severely damaged. Even buildings far away from the city center in the boonies are leveled.
skissane2 days ago
You can also see a lot of buildings demolished on the Egyptian side too.

In 2015, the Egyptian government announced a plan to demolish the entire Egyptian city of Rafah, in order to deter smuggling with the Gaza Strip. More than a decade on, most of it is gone. The residents were forcibly relocated to elsewhere in Egypt.

cogman102 days ago
They are saying that this is genocidal destruction. In a war sometimes civilian infrastructure is hit as collateral. But here, all infrastructure is destroyed and it's clear this wasn't done by 1 or 2 errant bombs but rather because of direct targeting. It can't be argued to be an accident because in farmland you see no bombs which hit the farmland by mistake. In other-words, this is entirely purposeful.
kyborenabout 9 hours ago
You say civilian dwellings, I say fighting positions. You see the same sort of thing in any urban combat zone.

How many apartment buildings are left standing in Bakhmut?

"We are demolishing more and more homes, they have nowhere to return. The only obvious result will be the desire of the Gazans to emigrate outside the Strip. Our main problem is in the receiving countries."

—Benjamin Netanyahu, 2025

https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/article-1195594

erxam1 day ago
And they will not stop with Gazans. The plan of the bloodthirsty monsters that compose the Israeli Ethnosupremacist Republic is to rebuild Greater Israel, executing and shedding the blood of anyone and everyone who dare not be a chosen one. The chosen ones are the natural rulers of the world and we're their bitches.
frrlpp1 day ago
And Israhell allies, EU and USA.
Alifatisk1 day ago
I suggest creating two tabs, one for Google Maps link [1] and another for Apple Maps link [2], then quickly switch between these two pages. It made me realize how much have been destroyed. Heart wrenching.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2963743,34.2449952,1665m

2. https://maps.apple.com/frame?map=satellite&center=31.296508%...

forgot-my-pw1 day ago
This is insanity. So much destruction and loss :(
fanckush1 day ago
this is unbelievable!

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