Conflict · Before and after

Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza

Two dated satellite photos of the same spot, 10 May 2023 and 25 Jan 2025. Open them in GeoWhisperer to swipe between them, check the pair and read what changed.

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What changed

Major change. Widespread destruction of buildings is visible across the entire area between May 2023 and January 2025. Large residential sections have been reduced to light grey rubble, with cleared ground and dirt tracks replacing former street blocks.

• Square A2high confidence
  Buildings replaced by grey rubble and exposed soil
  Before: Dense residential buildings and narrow alleys. After: Multiple building structures are missing and replaced by grey debris heaps and bare brownish ground.
• Square A3high confidence
  Widespread building destruction along the road corridor
  Before: Intact multi-story buildings lined both sides of the main north-south road. After: Buildings on both sides of the road are reduced to grey rubble fields and exposed dirt tracks.
• Square B2high confidence
  Buildings surrounding central open space reduced to rubble
  Before: Dense residential blocks surrounding central trees and a rectangular white roof. After: Several surrounding buildings are converted into piles of grey debris.
• Square B3high confidence
  Extensive building destruction and rubble fields
  Before: Dense urban structures framing the main road corridor. After: Large blocks of buildings are destroyed, leaving extensive grey rubble and cleared ground.
• Square C3high confidence
  Building destruction and ground clearing near former green area
  Before: Dense buildings next to a large vegetated plot at the bottom right. After: Multiple buildings are reduced to heaps of grey rubble and dirt tracks.

The square is split into nine numbered squares, A1 to C3. The changes above sit in A2, A3, B2, B3, C3.

Differences that are not changes

Things that look different in the two photos but do not mean anything changed on the ground:

• Square B2: Slight variation in brightness on the long white roof. Not counted: colour balance.
• Square A1: Varying shadows along building edges. Not counted: shadow.

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• Every dated photo of this spot in the Esri archive

The reading above was produced by GeoWhisperer from these two photos and nothing else. It describes what is visible, never why it happened or who did it, and it can miss things or misread shadows, season and viewing angle. Check every line by eye with the slider in the tool. Another OSINT tool by Henk van Ess, www.digitaldigging.org.

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