The crime that Israel commits every day

On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip officially came into effect, based on the 20-point peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump.

However, in practice, it quickly became clear that the ceasefire signaled a transition to a new phase of warfare, one characterized by destruction. While the bloodshed did decrease somewhat, it did not cease entirely, while the rate of destruction increased.

This destruction is not indiscriminate, carried out through shelling, but rather systematic demolition by bulldozers. It is a new phase of warfare in which armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozers have replaced tanks and artillery.

Within weeks of the agreement taking effect, satellite images captured by BBC Verify revealed that Israeli military units had not only failed to halt their operations in the occupied territories, but had intensified them. The photos, the most recent taken on November 8, document the systematic destruction of more than 1,500 residential buildings in areas that Israel was obligated to evacuate during the agreement.

This is corroborated by documented video footage showing Israeli engineering units leveling undamaged neighborhoods with bulldozers and clearing wide pathways through residential areas that had survived two years of bombardment.

One of the areas that suffered this type of systematic destruction is the large Abasan area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Satellite images show that many buildings in the area showed no structural damage or alteration until the ceasefire, before Israeli military units razed them to the ground in the following weeks.

In another area, near Al-Bayouk (Al-Nasr),east of Rafah, BBC satellite images show the same scene, with numerous buildings that appeared intact from the air before the ceasefire being destroyed. The same pattern is repeated in Gaza City itself, in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood to the east, and also near the Indonesian