Bombings in Gaza like those in the Second World War

For military experts, the extent of the devastation in Gaza, due to Israel's bombings since last October 7, especially in the part ... northern part of the Palestinian enclave under siege, has come close to that caused by the years-long carpet bombing of German cities during the Second World War. “Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne: some of the world's heaviest bombings ever are remembered by place names,” said Robert Pape, U.S. military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a seminal study of 20th-century bombing campaigns. interviewed by the Financial Times, "Gaza will also become the name of a place that will denote one of the heaviest conventional bombing campaigns in history." By December 4, more than 60 percent of buildings in northern Gaza had been severely damaged, according to the analysis of satellite radar data by Corey Scher of the CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University. In some neighborhoods this percentage reaches up to 70% of buildings. In contrast, according to Pape, over the span of two years, between 1943 and 1945, Allied bombing of 61 major German cities leveled approximately 50 percent of their urban areas.