The Staggering Scale of Loss and Resilience Under the Shadow of Ceasefire

The most immediate and visually striking reality of post-ceasefire Gaza City is the widespread, catastrophic destruction. Aerial and ground offensives have reduced an estimated 83% of all structures in the city to rubble, with over 81,000 housing units damaged. Residents returning to northern Gaza find only debris and ruins where their homes once stood, effectively transforming once-bustling neighborhoods into vast, dangerous, and uninhabitable demolition sites, erasing years, and in many cases decades, of infrastructural development.