Satellite photographs captured on 25 February 2026 and subsequently added to Google Earth have exposed the scale of devastation wrought across the Gaza Strip, where entire residential districts are reported to have been reduced to rubble and surviving civilians are said to be crowded into makeshift encampments along the Mediterranean coastline. Among the most striking findings is the apparent conversion of the Sheikh Mohammed cemetery in Khan Younis — a site where Palestinians had buried their dead for generations — into what appears to be an Israeli military outpost, a transformation that has been described by human rights observers as an erasure of both land and memory. For Palestinian journalist Muhannad Qishta, the imagery carries a deeply personal weight. His two sisters, Reem and Walaa, were buried in that cemetery, and he has since been unable to locate their graves. 'Even the dead have not been spared from this war,' he said. 'How will I feel if I go and find the place a desert, without my sisters' graves to read a prayer over?' His account is understood to reflect a wider experience among displaced Palestinians who have lost access to ancestral burial sites. According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israeli forces are reported to have fully or partially destroyed 94 percent of Gaza's cemeteries. The conflict, which has now claimed an estimated 73,000 lives according to figures cited by Palestinian authorities, has also been said to have transformed several historically significant communities beyond recognition. The Swedish Village in Rafah — a coastal settlement founded in 1965 to house Palestinian refugees — has reportedly been cleared entirely and converted into a military zone. In Rafah more broadly, analysts have noted that entire housing projects, including the 752-unit Saudi neighbourhood in Tal as-Sultan, appear to have been levelled.…