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07-09-2025
GAZA STRIP: The Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza City is reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble, forcing residents to flee in panic, with nowhere safe in the enclave, which has been under unrelenting bombardment for 23 months.
Israel’s round-the-clock assault on what UNICEF has dubbed the “city of fear” included an attack on a tent in the neighborhood of Tal al-Hawa on Thursday that wiped out an entire family of five people including three children.
Video footage of the attack showed Palestinians outside damaged tents, clearing up scattered belongings including a pair of blood-stained pink slippers that lay among the debris.
“My children and I were sleeping in the tent when we heard the sound of bombing. Shrapnel fell on us, and my four children started screaming,” Israa al-Basous told media.
Attacks were reported in Gaza City’s Zeitoun, Sabra, Tuffah, Nassr and Shujayea districts, as the military erased entire neighborhoods in its bid to drive out approximately one million people from the enclave’s largest urban hub.
Heavy bombardment in the Tuffah neighborhood killed at least eight people and injured dozens more, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson of the territory’s civil emergency service.
In Shujayea, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed at least two people, according to an ambulance source. And in Zeitoun, three bodies were pulled out dead from under the rubble of a destroyed home that belonged to the al-Ghaf family.
“They’re moving from one area to another that is less dangerous, but still within the range of Israeli military fire, the air strikes and bombardment,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City.
Mahmoud said many of the displaced were moving in the hope of finding safety for a few days, only to find themselves being displaced all over again.
Many had fled to the city’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, only to find tanks pushing into the area northwest of the city centre, destroying houses and causing fires in tent encampments.
Hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties. At Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, the floor of the morgue was strewn with bodies wrapped in white shrouds.
One woman stroked the head of her dead son as his body lay outside on a stretcher.
“Who are you leaving me to, son? Why? Why?” she wept.
Tess Ingram, UNICEF’s communication manager for the Middle East and North Africa, warned that almost one million people were trapped in the “city of fear, flight and funerals”.
75 killed across the enclave
As terrified residents scattered in the aim of finding shelter from the bombs, Israeli military spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin said that troops now held 40 percent of the city.
The operation, he said, would “continue to expand and intensify” in the coming days.
Journalist Sanad fact-checking agency analyzed satellite images that showed the “heavy presence” of more than 52 Israeli army vehicles in the Zeitoun neighborhood.
The images, dating from August 25 and September 1, demonstrate a clear pattern of forced displacement of residents from northern and central Gaza City towards the west in particular, along al-Rashid Street and the beach.
Palestinians who have fled Gaza City over the past few months have found dire conditions further south, where the mass movement of people has further overcrowded tent camps and pushed prices of basic goods much higher. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
