Watan-The Al Jazeera satellite channel broadcast footage from an Israeli march that it obtained after it was shot down in the Gaza Strip.
These scenes document a series of Israeli occupation crimes in the Shujaiya neighborhood of the Gaza Strip.
The images, which the channel said date back to last December, showed Israeli tanks taking refuge in a number of schools in Shujaiya in December, where these schools turned into barracks for occupation tanks after their residents were expelled.
The photos also revealed Israeli tanks digging up the Tawansah cemetery in the midst of the Shujaiya neighborhood and desecrating the bodies of Palestinians.
Human Shield Palestinian
The images also included the deployment of occupation soldiers as human shields and their deployment inside one of the schools in the Shujaiya neighborhood, alongside being chased by two Israeli marches.
In the video, a body was seen lying in the alleys of the neighborhood, unidentified, and its method of killing and fate are unknown.
الجزيرة تحصل على صور حصرية من مسيرة إسرائيلية تم إسقاطها في غزة توثق عمليات الجيش الإسرائيلي في حي الشجاعية، واستخدام جنود الاحتلال فلسطينيا كدرع بشري.. تقرير: صهيب العصا#حرب_غزة #الأخبار pic.twitter.com/r4NluKk95Z
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) May 2, 2024
UN report documents the extent of destruction in Gaza
In a related context, a report issued by the United Nations stated that the reconstruction process of destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip will continue until at least 2040 and may take several decades.
The extent of destruction in Gaza
Gaza needs “about 80 years to regain all completely destroyed housing units,” according to a UN report.
The building assessment issued by the United Nations Development Program stated that if the best-case scenarios were achieved, assuming the delivery of building materials five times faster than it was during the previous Gaza crisis in 2021, destroyed homes could be rebuilt by 2040.
It added that Gaza needs “about 80 years to regain all completely destroyed housing units” if it follows the pace of reconstruction seen in many previous wars in Gaza.
A separate report based on satellite imagery analyzed by the United Nations showed that 85.8% of schools in Gaza have suffered some level of damage since October 7th.
The United Nations report also stated that more than 70% of schools will require major or complete rebuilding.