“A desolate place with ruins, dust and graves: How Gaza looks from the sky,” is the shocking report by Guardian, accompanied by a related video and chilling descriptions. The British newspaper’s journalists had the opportunity to document the scenes after the Israeli attacks and the result is horrifying.
“From above, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilization, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A jumble of concrete shapes and collapsed walls, neighborhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities have vanished,” the related article notes.
“But here, there was no natural disaster and no slow passage of time. Gaza was a bustling, vibrant place until less than two years ago. Its markets were full of people, its streets full of children. Gaza has disappeared – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased from history, but leveled by an Israeli military campaign that left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse,” it continues.
Gaza: scenes of absolute destruction
The Guardian newspaper received permission on Tuesday to travel on a Jordanian military aircraft providing humanitarian aid. The flight offered not only the opportunity to watch three tons of aid – far from sufficient – being dropped over the famine-stricken strip, but also a rare chance to observe, even from above, an area that has been largely closed off from international media since October 7 and the subsequent attack launched by Israel.
Even from an altitude of about 600 meters, it was possible to distinguish places that mark some of the most destructive chapters of the conflict – a landscape carved with the marks of its deadliest attacks.
