Before and after videos show much of Gaza reduced to ruins by Israeli bombardment and offensive

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – January 2021
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1. Drone shot of Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in Gaza City before Israel-Hamas war

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 2 October 2025
2. Various driving shots of destruction in Omar Al-Mukhtar Street
3. Pan of destruction in Omar Al-Mukhtar Street

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2020
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4. Various drone shots of Saraya square in Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 30 January 2025
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5. Various drone shots of destruction in Rimal neighborhood

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 11 June 2025
6. Travelling shot of Saraya square with tents and destruction

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2020
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7. Drone shot showing Gaza City before the war

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 29 January 2025
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8. Drone shot of destruction in Gaza City

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2017
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9. Drone shot of Gaza port before the war

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2020
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10. Drone shot showing Gaza port before the war

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 1 February 2025
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11. Various drone shots of destruction at Gaza port

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 2 October 2025
12. Pan of destruction at Gaza port
STORYLINE:
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip over the past two years.

Associated Press footage before and during the war offer some sense of the destruction in the coastal territory.

Israeli bombardment and ground operations have turned entire neighborhoods in several cities into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching away in all directions.

Major roads have been plowed up. Critical water and electricity infrastructure is in ruins. Most hospitals no longer function.

Areas like the southern city of Rafah and the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya have been devastated and deserted with most of Gaza’s more than 2 million people squeezing in a narrow strip of land in the southern part of the strip.

Gaza is a strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea covering about 360 square kilometers (139 square miles).

Palestinians hope Gaza will be part of a future state, along with the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The war started when the Hamas led attack in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 251.

Most of them were released during ceasefires, 48 are still in captivity in Gaza, and Israel believes only 20 are alive.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 67,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government. Its figures are seen by the U.N. and many independent experts as the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.

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