Palestinians confront landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’

Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya (Abed Hajjar/AP)

Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation, after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage captured by The Associated Press shows mounds of rubble stretching as far as the eye can see, remnants of the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Hamas in their blood-ridden history.