UNOSAT Gaza Strip Road Damage Assessment from July 2025 Satellite Imagery

UNOSAT identified approximately 1511km of destroyed roads, 484km of severely affected roads, and 1484km of moderately affected main roads across the Gaza Strip. This geospatial dataset provides a preliminary satellite-imagery based damage assessment of the road network, indicating approximately 77% of the total network was damaged. The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) produced this analysis based on an image collected on 08 July 2025.

Use Cases

• Calculate total road network damage percentages based on the reported lengths of destroyed, severely affected, and moderately affected roads.
• Map the spatial distribution of road damage severity across the Gaza Strip based on the satellite imagery analysis.
• Assess humanitarian access and logistics planning based on the reported extent of damaged and obstructed roads.
• Validate or supplement field-based damage assessments with the preliminary satellite-derived data.

Strengths

• Provides specific quantified damage metrics: 1511km destroyed, 484km severely affected, and 1484km moderately affected.
• Calculates a comprehensive damage statistic: approximately 77% of the total Gaza Strip road network is damaged.
• Based on satellite imagery from a specific date (08 July 2025), providing a temporal anchor for the assessment.

Limitations

• The analysis is preliminary and has not been validated in the field.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific data structure within the GEODATABASE are unknown.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)

Collection Method

Satellite imagery analysis.

Time Range

Assessment based on imagery collected on 08 July 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 09:36:46.137189; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territory.