Hungry Palestinians queue at Gaza humanitarian kitchen
Palestinians queue to receive a hot meal from a charity kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Israel-besieged Gaza Strip amid a UN-declared famine after nearly two years of war
Israel is bombing homes to force mass displacement in Gaza City, civil defence says
Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, says Israel is deliberately bombing homes and residential blocks in densely populated neighbourhoods of Gaza City to force residents to flee towards the centre and south of the Strip, despite the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in these parts of the territory.
Families who received forced evacuation warnings said they struggled to find shelter inside the city and often returned to their damaged homes within hours, risking their lives amid ongoing strikes.
He warned that forcing Palestinians into overcrowded displacement camps that lack necessities is a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” and urged the international community to pressure Israel to halt this policy of forced displacement.
Satellite images show Israel has totally destroyed areas of Gaza City
Israel’s Gaza City invasion has caused widespread destruction across numerous neighbourhoods, including Zeitoun, Remal, Shujayea, Tuffah and Sabra, satellite images show.
“If we do not leave, we’ll be buried alive,” said Awad Abu Sharkh, one resident of the city.
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Forced evacuation orders leave starving families with ‘impossible choice’, WFP warns
The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that displacement is making families in Gaza even more vulnerable as famine spreads across the enclave.
“Many are too weak, sick, or starving to move at all. Each evacuation order brings an impossible choice: the risk of fleeing or the risk of staying,” the UN’s food agency wrote on X.
It renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire, saying “the fighting must stop” and a truce is long overdue.
More than 50,000 people left homeless in one week of Israeli bombardment, civil defence says
Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said that within less than a week, Israeli forces have caused “large-scale destruction” across Gaza City’s infrastructure and residential areas after announcing they were “opening the gates of hell” on the city.
According to Basal, Israeli bombardment has destroyed 12 residential towers of more than seven floors, containing about 500 apartments, displacing more than 10,000 people.
He said more than 120 smaller residential buildings were also destroyed, displacing 7,200 people, while partial damage to more than 500 other buildings has deprived nearly 30,000 people of shelter.
Basal added that more than 600 tents housing displaced families were burned or destroyed, leaving at least 6,000 more people homeless. Ten schools and five mosques were also completely destroyed in the strikes.
“In less than one week alone, more than 50,000 people in Gaza – including children, women, and the elderly – have been left homeless amid an escalating humanitarian catastrophe,” he said, urging the UN and international community to intervene.
