Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify showed Wednesday.

The new photos - the latest of which was taken on 8 November - show that entire neighbourhoods controlled by the Israeli army have been levelled in less than a month, apparently through demolitions.

The actual number of destroyed buildings could be significantly higher, with satellite imagery for some areas being unavailable for BBC Verify's assessment.

According to BBC, some experts have argued that the demolitions may violate the terms of the ceasefire brokered by the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. But an Israeli military spokesperson told BBC Verify that it was acting "in accordance with the ceasefire framework".

US President Donald Trump's 20 point peace plan for Gaza - the basis for the ceasefire - stated "all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended". He has since repeatedly stated that "the war is over".

BBC Verify's visual analysis of satellite imagery has found that the destruction of buildings in Gaza by the Israeli military has been continuing on a huge scale.

BBC said it used a change detection algorithm to analyse radar images taken before and after the ceasefire to highlight changes, which might indicate destruction, then manually counted visibly destroyed buildings.

Houses, Orchards and Gardens Flattened

Lana Khalil used to live in Abasan al-Kabira before she was displaced to nearby al-Mawasi. She described her home as being a "heaven" and full of "farms and vegetables".

Now, like so many other parts of Gaza, the area has been reduced to rubble.

"The Israeli military left nothing to us, they demolished everything," she told BBC. Ms Khalil added that former residents could hear the demolition of the area "from our tents in al-Mawasi".

"Our hearts are broken," she said.

In another area, near al-Bayuk, east of the city of Rafah, satellite imagery tells the same story. Numerous buildings that seemed from above to be undamaged before the ceasefire have since been destroyed. Aerial footage of a huge explosion published at the start of November shows dust rising from the ruins of the neighbourhood.

Destruction has also continued in Gaza City itself, in the eastern neighbourhood of Shejaiya as well as near the Indonesian hospital on the edge of Jabalia camp.

Since the Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, Israel has committed at least 282 violations, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, leaving 242 Palestinians dead and over 620 injured.

Israeli forces have already killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, injured over 170,000 others, and rendered the enclave uninhabitable since October 2023.