Overnight Gaza City attacks nothing short of terror
Strikes continued overnight and into the early hours of this morning. People were forced out of their homes after the Israeli army issued threats, giving them just a few minutes to get out of buildings marked as targets.
People rushed onto the streets with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, looking for shelter. And there is no safe place for them to go. What happened is nothing short of terror.
At the moment, I can hear the sound of drones in the background and quadcopters hovering towards the northeastern part of Gaza City. Looming on the horizon is a larger operation to destroy more residential buildings.
Rubble is scattered following the overnight Israeli attack
Israeli attack kills aid seekers in central Gaza
Israeli forces have fired at a group of people seeking aid in the central Wadi Gaza area, killing at least four and wounding three others, according to a medical source quoted by our colleagues on the ground.
What remains of Gaza City?
Israel has been demolishing Gaza City’s high-rise towers, flattening entire blocks that once housed thousands of people.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 50 multistorey buildings have been destroyed in recent weeks as Israeli forces press their assault on the city, amid a wave of forced displacements.
Some neighbourhoods have faced near-total destruction. In Gaza City’s Zeitoun area alone, more than 1,500 homes and buildings have been destroyed since early August, leaving parts of the district with no buildings left standing.
Several new forced evacuation threats for Gaza City
Israel has issued more forced evacuation threats for several facilities in or near Gaza City, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.
The first is for al-Rayas residential block, which includes four high-rise buildings in the city. The second is for two schools sheltering displaced people in Shati refugee camp to the west of the city.
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have repeatedly issued last-minute evacuation threats for residential buildings in Gaza City during the ongoing invasion, often giving residents only minutes to flee before strikes.
More shelters for displaced Palestinians bombed in Gaza
Two UNRWA-run schools-turned-shelters have been bombed by the Israeli army in Shati refugee camp.
The bombing comes just minutes after a forced evacuation threat was issued by the Israeli army.
Smoke billows from a forcibly evacuated UNRWA school following Israeli air strikes at Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, on September 13
