Families forced to sleep on roadside after Israel’s evacuation threats
The Israeli army has closed Salah al-Din Street, a key route used by forcibly displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza. That leaves only al-Rashid Street – a parallel coastal road – as their remaining option, and it is severely overcrowded.
Al Jazeera spoke with several displaced Palestinians who, unable to travel with their belongings on Salah al-Din Street, which is blocked off in areas by rubble or piles of sand, were forced to drop off their possessions and sleep on the side of the road.
“The situation is very difficult… The [Israeli] occupation wants you to hate life. It doesn’t want you to live,” Ahmed Natat, a displaced Palestinian who slept on the side of the street with his family, told Al Jazeera’s Hind Khodary.
“This is a suffering we’ve never experienced before,” added Abdallah Natat, another displaced Palestinian.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip
Deadly Israeli strike on home of director of al-Shifa Hospital’s brother
An Israeli air strike on the Abu Salmiya family’s home in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, has killed children. The air strike hit the home of Majed Abu Salmiya, brother of Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Majed and several of his children are reported killed in the attack.
Six more killed in Gaza City, today’s death toll at 51
We are getting reports of yet another deadly Israeli attack in Gaza City, this one in the Tuffah neighbourhood. The drone attack killed at least six people, according to the Wafa news agency.
In total, Israeli attacks in the enclave today have killed 51 people.
Hamas releases compilation photo of remaining Israeli captives, calls it ‘farewell picture’
Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has published what it describes as a “farewell picture” of 48 captives still held in Gaza, attributing their potential risk to Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza City.
The image is a compilation photo in which each captive is labelled “Ron Arad”, referencing the Israeli Air Force captain who went missing in Lebanon in 1986 and is believed to have been captured.
The release was accompanied by text stating: Because of Netanyahu’s refusal, and [Israeli military chief of staff Eyal] Zamir’s capitulation, a farewell picture as the military operation in Gaza City begins.”
The message seems to mirror previous Hamas statements warning that Israel’s offensive in Gaza City could endanger the captives, who it claims are “scattered throughout the neighbourhoods” of the city.
‘Tents were on fire’ after Israeli attack on Gaza City shelter
As we’ve reported earlier, at least two children have been killed by Israeli forces in a strike on a school-turned-shelter west of Gaza City. Ibrahim Arheem, a Palestinian boy who was there, told Al Jazeera that those sheltering there “woke up to the sound of a strike”.
“We found the tent on fire, with many dead, including children and women. We started moving them ourselves and trying to put out the fire. There was no medical assistance or anything. We had to carry them on stretchers to the Red Crescent Hospital,” he said.
Israeli attack kills four people in Gaza City tent camp
Israeli warplanes have attacked a tent camp in central Gaza City, killing at least four people and wounding a number of others, report our colleagues on the ground and the Wafa news agency. Those wounded were brought to al-Shifa Hospital.
Israeli forces have continued to heavily shell and remotely detonate explosive in the northwestern part of the city, while also targeting residential buildings in the northeastern area.
‘Walking in the streets of Deir el-Balah is heartbreaking’
In a post on X, Hind Khodary, one of our colleagues on the ground in Gaza, shares what she sees in central Gaza:
Walking in the streets of deir el balah is heartbreaking ..
People homeless .. children lined waiting for a water truck .. others holding pots looking for a community kitchen ..
rage everywhere
— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) September 20, 2025
