Israel bombs more Gaza City high-rises after forced evacuation orders

The Israeli service is systematically destroying remaining infrastructure arsenic it moves to prehend Gaza’s largest municipality centre.

The Israeli service has bombed different high-rise successful Gaza City aft telling Palestinian residents to evacuate oregon look being killed amid its ongoing siege and imposed wide starvation successful the enclave.

The Israeli subject designated much high-rise towers arsenic targets successful a representation released connected Saturday. Shortly aft releasing the map, it bombed the 15-storey Soussi Tower, which is located other a gathering belonging to the United Nations bureau for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) successful the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.

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“These attacks are causing panic amongst the people, particularly considering the clip they are fixed to evacuate. Half an hr oregon an hr is not capable clip for radical to flight from these buildings,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said, reporting from Gaza City.

The Israeli subject said successful a statement, without offering evidence, that the buildings struck were utilized by Hamas to stitchery quality to show the locations of the Israeli army. It besides said equipped Palestinian groups planted “numerous explosive devices” and dug a passageway successful the area.

Gaza’s Government Media Office rejected the claims and called them “part of a systematic argumentation of deception utilized by the concern to warrant the targeting of civilians and infrastructure” and forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes. It said 90 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed by Israel.

The targeted buildings were adjacent the 12-storey Mushtaha Tower, which connected Friday was likewise bombed and razed to the ground, arsenic Israel moves to prehend Gaza City contempt planetary criticism.

At slightest 68 Palestinians were killed and 362 wounded crossed the Gaza Strip by the Israeli subject implicit the past day, the enclave’s Ministry of Health said connected Saturday afternoon.

The toll includes 23 assistance seekers killed and 143 wounded by Israeli forces. At slightest six much Palestinians besides died of Israeli-induced starvation, bringing the full fig of starvation deaths during astir 2 years of warfare to 382, including 135 children.

At slightest 64,368 Palestinians person been killed and 162,367 wounded by Israel since the commencement of the warfare successful the aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks connected confederate Israel connected October 7, 2023.

Israel declares caller ‘humanitarian zone’, bombs the area

Sources astatine Nasser Hospital, located successful confederate Gaza’s Khan Younis, told Al Jazeera that astatine slightest 2 Palestinians were killed and galore wounded successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected a structure lodging displaced radical successful the al-Mawasi area.

While this country was designated arsenic a “humanitarian” oregon “safe” portion by the Israeli service aboriginal successful the war, it has been repeatedly bombed, starring to the deaths of hundreds of displaced civilians.

Hours earlier the latest bombings, the Israeli service had announced the constitution of different akin portion successful al-Mawasi, which runs on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast. It claimed the country volition person infrastructure specified arsenic tract hospitals, h2o lines, desalination facilities and nutrient supplies.

Palestinians mourn the nonaccomplishment of loved ones killed by the Israeli subject connected September 6, 2025 [Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu]

Reporting from cardinal Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said Palestinians bash not spot the alleged humanitarian country arsenic tents successful akin zones person been attacked by Israel galore times earlier and obscurity is safe.

But radical successful Gaza City person fewer options: If they stay, they hazard being killed, and if they leave, they look dangers connected the roadworthy and whitethorn person to walk sizeable wealth to determination their belongings south.

Those who person returned to their homes successful Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, wherever Israeli forces withdrew precocious aft weeks of crushed assaults, person recovered everything they owned destroyed.

“What we person built successful 50 years was flattened successful 5 days,” nonmigratory Aqeel Kishko told Al Jazeera. “Nothing remains lasting – buildings, roads and infrastructure. We are walking not lone connected ruins but besides connected dormant bodies of our loved ones.”

Nohaa Tafish said it would beryllium intolerable for Gaza’s largest municipality centre to beryllium revived.

“What would radical instrumentality to? There is thing to instrumentality to,” she said.

Ahmed Rihem besides had his location successful Gaza City reduced to rubble. “It is arsenic if the full Zeitoun neighbourhood was deed with a atomic bomb,” helium said.