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31-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: Heavy bombardment has been reported in Gaza City early on Saturday as Israel says its planned seizure of the besieged Palestinian territory’s largest area is progressing.
At least 59 Palestinians including aid seekers, killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
The United States has said it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a United Nations gathering of world leaders, where several US allies are set to recognize Palestine as a state.
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees warned that the Israeli operation in Gaza City could re-displace one million people.
Israel has killed at least 63,371 people and wounded 159,835 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks and about 200 were taken captive.
Many Palestinians have been forced to flee by Israel’s intensified offensive on Gaza City, with many setting up makeshift tents amid miserable conditions in an area west of Nuseirat refugee camp to the south.
“We are thrown in the streets like what would I say? Like dogs? We are not like dogs. Dogs are better than us,” Mohammed Maarouf, 50, told The Associated Press news agency, standing in front of his tent.
He and his family of nine had already been displaced from the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
“We have no homes. We are on the streets,” he said.
Ahmad Saadeh, originally from Beit Hanoon, told media that Palestinians were suffering from hunger, sickness and a lack of shelter in the war-ravaged territory, where famine conditions were recently confirmed.
“We suffer from many things,” he said. “We suffer that our children are ill.”
As we’ve reported, at least 44 Palestinians including eight aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
Local sources reported that 11 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a bakery in the Nassr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
The Civil Defence said the air strike hit the bakery and a nearby tent, as well as a group of civilians including children.
Majority of Israelis ‘very frustrated’ yet passive in face of war in Gaza
Israeli columnist Gideon Levy says many Israelis feel “frustrated, angry and helpless” about the lack of clarity around Israel’s war in Gaza and what it hopes to achieve.
“A big part of Israelis, I guess it is the majority, is very, very frustrated, angry and helpless, because people are going to the army and people (are) going to this war without knowing where it is aiming, what is the goal, and above all, what is the legitimacy of this war?” he told media.
Despite this discontent, Levy noted that most Israelis are unwilling to take any meaningful action. “This war can continue because this majority… is not refusing to serve in the army, it is not taking any measures. They go to protests, to demonstrations in the evenings, which doesn’t affect Netanyahu at all.”
Red Cross chief says mass evacuation of Gaza City ‘impossible’
The Red Cross chief has denounced Israel’s plans for a forced mass expulsion of Gaza City before a military takeover, insisting there was no way it could be done safely.
“It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions,” International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger said, describing the evacuation plan as “not only unfeasible but incomprehensible”. (Int’l News Desk)
