Gaza death toll hits 75 Palestinians killed since dawn today
That figure includes 44 people who were killed in Gaza City amid Israel’s unrelenting military assault, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera.
Satellite images show scale of Gaza City displacement
Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency has reviewed recent satellite images that show widespread displacement of residents from northern and central Gaza City towards the west along al-Rashid Street and the beach.
The high-quality images captured on August 25 and September 1 show clear changes in the areas where displaced people have set up tents. Those displacement camps began to disappear from the neighbourhoods of Daraj, Sheikh Radwan and Jabalia, Sanad said, while congestion was observed in several areas west of the city and along al-Rashid Street.
Additionally, Sanad reported an increase in the number of camps in areas where the Israeli authorities issued evacuation warnings in the northwest of Gaza City.
“Satellite images captured on August 25 also showed a heavy presence of more than 52 Israeli army vehicles in the al-Zeitoun neighbourhood in the southeast of the city, within a perimetre of less than 500 metres [1,640 feet],” Sanad said.
The surge in forced displacement comes as Israel pushes ahead with its plan to seize Gaza City, carrying out a relentless barrage of deadly attacks.
Israeli army says in control of 40 percent of Gaza City
A spokesperson for the Israeli military says Israel now controls 40 percent of the city in northern Gaza, including the neighbourhoods of Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan.
“The operation will continue to expand and intensify in the coming days,” Brigadier General Effie Defrin said during a news conference.
Defring added that the army will only end its operations when Israeli captives are released and Hamas’s rule ends.







