Since October 2023, nearly 70,000 tons of explosives have fallen on Gaza in less than a year. For comparison, the Hiroshima atomic bomb in 1945 had a yield of 12,000-15,000 tons, meaning that Gaza received the equivalent of six nuclear bombs in just months, while cities like Dresden and Hamburg took years of bombing to reach similar levels of destruction.
As of spring 2024, 69 percent of Gaza's buildings were destroyed or damaged, with some areas reaching 80 percent, more than Hiroshima itself. Although the occupation has smart bombs, 40-50% of what was used was "dumb" and unguided, but each ton of these modern explosives is equivalent to many times the impact of one ton in the middle of the last century.
The human toll reflects the scale of the catastrophe: More than 61,500 dead in less than a year, roughly 2.5 percent of Gaza's population. About 60 percent of the victims are women, children and the elderly, while more than 17,000 children have been left without one or both parents.
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