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Updated Google Maps satellite imagery now shows the widespread destruction across Rafah, the southern Gaza city that saw intense fighting and displacement. The imagery lays bare the scale of devastation in the urban landscape, and observers are sharing the maps as a stark visual record of the impact of the conflict on the city and its residents.

Newly updated satellite imagery on Google Maps is offering one of the clearest aerial views yet of the devastation across the Gaza Strip following more than a year of war. The refreshed images show entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, with observers describing the visual record of destroyed homes, schools and hospitals as difficult to comprehend.

Updated satellite imagery in Google Maps is showing the scale of destruction and displacement in Gaza, with tent camps and ruined neighbourhoods now visible to anyone who opens the app. Commenters say the images confirm what was previously reported, and are challenging those who dismissed earlier photos of the devastation as exaggerated or propaganda.