The Financial Times reports that the extent of devastation and destruction in northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached levels seen during the years-long carpet bombing of German cities during World War II.
More than 60 percent of buildings in northern Gaza have been severely damaged, the report says. Across the coastal territory, more than 300,000 residential units have been damaged or destroyed.
“Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns,” FT quoted US military historian Robert Pape as saying.
The report cited the different types of munitions that the Israeli military is using against the Gaza Strip, including unguided MII7 “dumb bombs” and “earth-shaking” 2,000lb GBU-31 bombs.
Source: AlJazeera
