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UNOSAT Gaza Strip Comprehensive Building & Housing Unit Damage Assessment - March 2024

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UNOSAT Gaza Strip Comprehensive Building & Housing Unit Damage Assessment - March 2024
Description
**UNOSAT code: CE20231007PSE** This map illustrates a satellite-imagery based comprehensive assessment of damage and destruction to structures within the area of interest in the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territory, based on images collected on 29 February 2024 when compared to images collected on 1 May 2023, 10 May 2023, 18 September 2023, 15 October 2023, 7 November 2023, 26 November 2023, and 6-7 January 2024. According to satellite imagery analysis, UNOSAT identified 31,198 destroyed structures, 16,908 severely damaged structures and 40,762 moderately damaged structures, for a total of 88,868 structures. These correspond to around 35% of the total structures in the Gaza Strip and a total of 121,400 estimated damaged housing units. The governorates of Khan Yunis and Gaza have experienced the highest rise in damage, with 12,279 new structures damaged in Khan Yunis and 2,010 in Gaza. Khan Yunis City had the highest number of newly destroyed structures, with 6,663 in total. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field.
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UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
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The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2024-03-20
Date Issued
2024-03-21
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http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa
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Public
Date Added
May 31, 2024
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The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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    UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2024). UNOSAT Gaza Strip Comprehensive Building & Housing Unit Damage Assessment - March 2024. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/c16baf32-5f22-4fa5-a703-7cc90e7d71c2 (dataset)
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