India, Oct. 8 -- It's perhaps the most dramatic wound inflicted on the Gaza Strip by Israel's military campaign over the past three years: The city of Rafah, once home to a quarter million people, has been erased.

Satellite imagery shows the Israeli military has systematically razed the southern city and other towns and districts to the ground and, in some places, ploughed away the rubble. Demolition, using bulldozers and explosives, has continued unabated since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal reached a year ago, as the military solidifies its hold on just over 60 per cent of the territory that it still controls. Gaza's mangled landscape is just one of the wounds on top of wounds that the enclave's 2 million Palestinians have endured sin...