Israeli military forces have expanded their control to cover more than 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, restricting the remaining habitable area for Palestinian civilians to an estimated 15 percent of the territory.
The statistics originate from a report by the Gaza Center for Human Rights, highlighting how the progressive westward movement of Israel’s military demarcation zone—known as the “Yellow Line“—has severely altered the enclave’s geography.
Only 15% of the total land mass remains usable for housing and shelter. This calculation excludes heavily bombarded urban rubble, active military buffer zones, and lands completely stripped of water, electricity, and essential services.
Confining Gaza’s population of more than 2 million people into such a small, non-contiguous space translates to extreme logistical constraints on humanitarian infrastructure, roads, hospitals, and temporary displacement camps.