As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month Gaza war has also caused massive material destruction in the Palestinian enclave. “The rate of damage being registered is unlike anything we have studied before. It is much faster and more extensive than anything we have mapped,” said Corey Scher, a PhD candidate at the City University of New York, who has been researching satellite imagery of Gaza. As Israel launches an offensive on Rafah, the last population centre in Gaza yet to be entered by its ground troops, AFP looks at the t…