In no man's land: How Gaza was systematically destroyed

War doesn't just kill people. It kills landscapes. A year has passed since Hamas terrorists invaded their Jewish neighbors, murdered people in kibbutzim, massacred people at a music festival, and dragged hundreds of innocent people into deep tunnels. Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded unyieldingly, blanketing the Palestinians with a carpet of bombs, sweeping his troops from north to south through Gaza like a hurricane of tanks and assault rifles – through a country where terrorists hide behind civilians.

Since Israel has become a state of paranoia. And Gaza a death strip.

More than 40,000 people have now fallen victim to the war in the small enclave. More than 163,000 buildings have been damaged. That is almost 60 percent of all buildings in Gaza. For stern magazine, we analyzed the ongoing destruction using satellite images. It can be roughly divided into three phases, between which you can switch using the slider in the following interactive graphic to track the progress of the destruction.