Razing Gaza: Before and after satellite images show the true devastation of Israel's bombardment as 700 homes and mosques are turned to rubble and 400 craters blight the war zone




The obliteration of Gaza from relentless Israeli air strikes and tank shelling was laid bare today in a series of satellite images charting the escalating violence across the region.



Analysis from UN satellite experts reveal how hundreds of buildings have been razed to the ground in a series of attacks that have killed more than 1,300 Palestinians over the last three weeks.

Using images from July 6 - before the conflict began - and comparing them with ones from July 25, they have identified 700 destroyed structures, many of them homes and mosques.

Blitzed: This map illustrates satellite-detected damage and destruction in the north-eastern portion of the Gaza Strip including areas of Gaza City, Toffah and Shija'ia Experts from the UN's Institute for Training and Research detected hundreds of razed buildings and destroyed agricultural areas across Gaza Desecrated: A mosque lies in ruins in Gaza City after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in the latest round of attacks on the Palestinians Carnage: A Palestinian rides a horse past the collapsed minaret of the destroyed mosque. At least 76 people died in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday

They also counted 316 severely damaged buildings and 102 others that were moderately damaged.

In addition, the team from the UN's Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) picked out at least 404 craters on roads and in agricultural areas across the Gaza Strip including Gaza City, Toffah, Nahal Qatif and Beit Haum.

In the latest assaults launched today at least 76 people died in Israeli strikes across Gaza, including a UN school, sending the Palestinian toll from 23 days of fighting above 1,300.

Analysis from UN satellite experts reveal how hundreds of buildings have been destroyed in bombardments that have killed more than 1,300 Palestinians Aerial onslaught: Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City during a military operation in the east of Gaza Strip

Later in the day, medics pulled the bodies of another seven people from the rubble of a house in Khan Yunis, also from the same family.

In another shelling attack in Gaza City, an 11-year-old disabled girl was killed, and a 16-year-old girl died in a strike on central Gaza.