Drones capture shocking images of Gaza’s destruction – as people find nothing left | World News

Drones have been a common sight in Gaza for a long time, but they have always been military in nature.

The drone’s whine is enough to trigger fear in many people in the region.

But now, drones are providing something different – ​​long, sweeping footage of the destruction that has occurred. Gaza. And the picture is quite surprising.

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Entire city blocks were reduced to rubble. The roads are destroyed. A city whose landscape has been completely redesigned.

Decapitated tower blocks and entire areas are turned into black and white photographs, where there is no color but only a palette of grays – from the dark colors of the charred walls to the lightest grays of the dust floating in the air.

And everywhere, indistinct dull gray debris – debris that no longer exists.

The joy after the ceasefire has now turned into a level of anxiety and shock.

Gaza is full of people returning to their homes and hoping for good news. For a lucky few, good fortune is good, but for most, bad news is bad.

Umm Firas has been displaced from her home in Khan Younis for the past five months. He returned today to a district he knows well. And what he found was nothing.

“This morning we returned to our land, saw our house, the neighborhood where we used to live,” he said.

“But we didn’t find any traces of houses, no roads, no surroundings, no trees. Not even plants, even trees – everything had been bulldozed. The whole area had been destroyed.

“There used to be more than 1,750 houses on the block where we live, but now not a single one is still standing. Every neighborhood is destroyed, every house is destroyed, every school is destroyed, every tree is destroyed. The area is uninhabitable.

“There was no infrastructure, no place where we could pitch a tent to sit. Our area, in the center of Khan Younis town used to be densely populated. Our houses were built next to each other. Now there is nowhere to go.

“Where can we go? We can’t even find an empty place to pitch a tent on the ruins of our own house. So we have to remain homeless and displaced.”

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It’s a story that comes up again and again. One man said he couldn’t even reach his house because it was still too close to Israeli military officers stationed in the area.

Another, an elderly man whose bright pink glasses obscured his tired eyes, said there was “nothing left” in his house “so we gave it to God”.

“I’m glad we survived and are in good health,” he said, “and now we can get back out there even if it means we have to eat sand!”

Bulldozers have started work across the route, trying to clear the road and provide access. The debris piled up into a large pile, but this was just a small band-aid stuck to a large wound.

The more you see of Gaza, the more impossible the task of rebuilding this place becomes. The devastation was extraordinary.

Bodies were found in ruins while cities were full of buildings so badly damaged they had to be torn down.

Humanitarian aid is urgently needed, but for now, the entrance remains closed. Charities request access.

Of course, it is better for society to live without war than with war. Peace in Gaza provides the ability to sleep better and worry less. But when people woke up, what they saw was an apocalyptic scene of terrible destruction.