{"id":495972,"date":"2025-10-13T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495972\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:08:15","slug":"bbc-verify-live-satellite-data-shows-heat-sources-at-crimea-oil-depot-after-reported-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495972\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Satellite data shows heat sources at Crimea oil depot after reported attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your questions answered: Commonwealth War Graves in Gazapublished at 11:23 BST<\/p>\n

11:23 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Thomas Copeland<\/strong>
BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n

Jim from Exeter got in touch to ask if we could use satellite imagery to assess the damage to his grandfather\u2019s grave in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Walter Chisholm Gracie was serving with the Royal Scots Fusiliers regiment when he was killed at the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April 1917.<\/p>\n

He is buried in the Gaza War Cemetery, one of two sites in Gaza overseen by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, alongside Deir El Belah War Cemetery. These two sites contain the graves of 3,420 soldiers, mostly from World War One.<\/p>\n

Gaza saw three decisive battles between the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (a British Empire military formation) and Ottoman troops in 1917.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gathered the latest satellite imagery of the sites and compared them with pictures from 2023. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

As of 22 September, the commission says around 10% of the headstones have been damaged and their website has specific details as to which parts of the cemeteries have been impacted, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Gaza War Cemetery has been tended by the Jaradah family for 100 years, as the BBC reported in early 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Head gardener Ibrahim Jaradah, members of his team and their families were evacuated to Egypt a little over a year later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promise that once I\u2019m able to enter Gaza again, we\u2019ll work to document everything properly,\u201d Jaradah told me in a message. <\/p>\n

\"WalterImage caption, <\/p>\n

Walter Chisholm Gracie, pictured left, and a photo of his grave in Gaza taken before the current conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your questions answered: Commonwealth War Graves in Gazapublished at 11:23 BST 11:23 BST Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-495972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115366547121823044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}