Destruction along proposed buffer zone

Damaged areas since Oct. 7, 2023

Erez crossing

Proposed buffer zone

(estimated area)

Beit Hanoun

2,850 buildings within the zone potentially face demolition, 1,100 already have been damaged.

Jabalia

Gaza City

Southeast of Gaza City

A large complex of warehouses has been destroyed.

Salah al-Din

Al Rasheed St.

ISRAEL

Bureij

Nuseirat

Med.

Sea

Near Maghazi refugee camp

21 Israeli reservists were killed in January when a militant fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a tank nearby. The blast triggered explosives, collapsing two buildings onto the soldiers.

Deir al-Balah

Israeli closed military zone

Al Rasheed Coastal Rd.

Khirbet Khuzaa

Khan Younis

Significant destruction of buildings and lands bulldozed.

Salah al-Din

GAZA

Rafah

The Philadelphi Corridor

Israeli officials believe Hamas smuggles weapons along the border – a charge Egypt denies.

EGYPT

1 mile

Rafah crossing

N

Damage areas through Jan. 29.

Sources: AP reports; Damage analysis data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University;

Mapcreator.io/OSM.org

Graphic: Phil Holm

Destruction along proposed buffer zone

Damaged areas since Oct. 7, 2023

Erez crossing

Proposed buffer zone

(estimated area)

Beit Hanoun

2,850 buildings within the zone potentially face demolition, 1,100 already have been damaged.

Jabalia

Al Rasheed St.

Gaza City

Southeast of Gaza City

A large complex of warehouses has been destroyed.

Salah al-Din

Med.

Sea

ISRAEL

Bureij

Nuseirat

Israeli closed military zone

Near Maghazi refugee camp

Deir al-Balah

21 Israeli reservists were killed in January when a militant fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a tank nearby. The blast triggered explosives, collapsing two buildings onto the soldiers.

Al Rasheed Coastal Rd.

Khirbet Khuzaa

Khan Younis

Significant destruction of buildings and lands bulldozed.

Salah al-Din

GAZA

The Philadelphi Corridor

Rafah

Israeli officials believe Hamas smuggles weapons along the border – a charge Egypt denies.

EGYPT

N

Rafah crossing

1 mile

Damage areas through Jan. 29.

Sources: AP reports; Damage analysis data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center

and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University; Mapcreator.io/OSM

Graphic: Phil Holm