EU Satellite Imagery Delayed Over Gaza and Parts of West Bank by 24-hours

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. Become a member and support our work here. Imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s freely available Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellites appears to be delayed over Gaza and parts of the West Bank, a Bellingcat analysis has found. While the delay remains relatively short at just 24 hours, this can still impact the speed at which analysts and researchers can observe what is happening in the region. For example, the Israeli Defence Forces demolished homes in the West Bank Palestinian city o