LONDON -- Since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel and Israel's military response in Gaza, an ABC News analysis of dozens of satellite images from the last two years shows the massive destruction across nearly every area of Gaza. The images show entire towns and neighborhoods have been ravaged in Gaza, alongside key infrastructure like schools, hospitals and religious buildings. As many as 197,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed during the war, according to estimates in a damage analysis shared with ABC News of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University's Conflict Ecology lab. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the extent of the destruction in an Aug. 10 press conference with the foreign

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