Israel flattens more Gaza towers as strikes kill 53 and famine toll rises

Israeli forces person intensified their bombardment of Gaza City, levelling 3 residential blocks and sidesplitting astatine slightest 53 Palestinians, including 35 successful Gaza City, arsenic families proceed to fly nether the menace of caller forced evacuation orders.

The Israeli service marked the al-Kawthar operation successful Gaza’s confederate Remal neighbourhood arsenic a people earlier destroying the gathering connected Sunday with a bid of rocket strikes little than 2 hours later.

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Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said: “It was different sleepless nighttime for those successful Gaza City, with the sounds of drones, the changeless hum of machines of war, and the explosive remotely detonated robots crossed the city.”

Gaza’s Government Media Office slammed Israel’s “systematic bombing of towers, residential buildings, schools and civilian institutions with the purpose of extermination and forced displacement”.

In a statement, it argued that portion Israel claimed to beryllium targeting equipped groups, “the tract realities beryllium beyond uncertainty that the concern deliberately and according to a wide methodology bombs schools, mosques, hospitals and aesculapian centres, destroys towers and residential buildings, destroys displaced persons’ tents, and targets the office of assorted institutions, including planetary institutions moving successful the humanitarian field.”

Residents hunt for usable items among the rubble, aft the Israeli army’s onslaught connected the al-Kawthar flat gathering successful Gaza City, Gaza, connected September 14, 2025 [Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu]

‘Nowhere successful Gaza is safe’

As bombardments intensified, families were erstwhile again forced to fly southbound towards al-Mawasi, an country Israel has designated arsenic a “safe zone” contempt repeatedly attacking it.

Ahmed Awad told Al Jazeera that helium had escaped bluish Gaza connected Saturday arsenic “mortar shells rained down”. He described arriving astatine midnight to find “no water, nary toilets, nothing. Families are sleeping successful the open. The concern is highly dire”.

Another displaced Palestinian, AbedAllah Aram, said his household faced a “severe shortage” of cleanable water. “Food is scarce, and wrong these tents, radical are bare and malnourished. Winter is approaching, and we urgently request caller tents. On apical of that, this country cannot grip much displaced families,” helium said.

From al-Mawasi, UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram told Al Jazeera that conditions are worsening daily. “Nowhere successful Gaza is safe, including successful this alleged humanitarian zone,” she said. “The campy is becoming much and much crowded by the day.”

She recalled gathering a woman, Seera, who had been ordered to evacuate Gaza City portion pregnant. “She went into labour successful Sheikh Radwan and gave commencement connected the broadside of the roadworthy portion trying to find help, whilst evacuation orders were being issued for that area,” Ingram said. “She is 1 of truthful galore examples of families who person travel present and present are struggling to entree the basics they request to survive.”

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from al-Mawasi, said displaced Palestinians determination are facing an unbearable uncertainty. One antheral told her helium had been searching for structure for astir a week.

“I person a ample family, including my children, parent and grandmother. Not lone are missiles raining down connected us, but famine is devouring america too. My household has been connected a changeless travel of displacement for 2 years. We tin nary longer endure the ongoing genocidal warfare oregon hunger,” helium said. “Above all, we person nary root of income to provender our starving children. Displacement is arsenic achy arsenic eviscerating one’s psyche retired of the body.”

The enclave’s Ministry of Health reported 2 much deaths from malnutrition successful the past 24 hours, bringing the authoritative famine toll to 422, including 145 children.

Since the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification formally declared a famine past month, 144 Palestinians, among them 30 children, person died of hunger.

Doha acme condemns ‘barbaric’ Israel

Meanwhile, the governmental fallout from Israel’s onslaught connected Hamas negotiators successful Qatar past week, which killed 5 Hamas members and a Qatari information officer, has continued.

Izzat al-Rashq, a subordinate of Hamas’s governmental bureau, said the “war transgression Netanyahu is attempting to displacement the conflict to the region, seeking to redraw the Middle East and predominate it successful pursuit of mythical fantasies related to ‘Greater Israel’, which places the full portion connected the brink of detonation owed to his extremism and recklessness.”

He said the onslaught connected Qatari ungraded was meant to “destroy the dialog process and undermine the relation of our sister state, Qatar”.

At a preparatory gathering up of a acme connected Monday successful Doha, Arab and Islamic leaders discussed ways to respond.

Reuters reported that a draught solution seen astatine the gathering condemned Israel’s “genocide, taste cleansing, starvation, siege, and colonising activities”, informing that specified actions threatened bid successful the portion and undermined efforts to normalise ties with Arab states.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani called Israel’s onslaught connected Doha connected September 9 “barbaric” and urged fierce and steadfast measures successful response.

Sheikh Mohammed said that Arab nations supported “lawful measures” to support Doha’s sovereignty and called connected the planetary assemblage to wantonness “double standards” successful dealing with Israel.

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that “silence and inaction” had emboldened Israel to transportation retired crimes “with impunity”. He called connected Arab and Islamic nations to clasp Israel accountable for “evidenced warfare crimes”, including “killing civilians, starving the colonisation and driving an full colonisation homeless”.

Adnan Hayajneh, a prof of planetary relations astatine Qatar University, told Al Jazeera that the determination temper had shifted. “The US has to aftermath up to the information that you’ve got 2 cardinal Muslims astir the satellite insulted, and it’s lone the beginning. It’s not lone the onslaught connected Qatar, it is simply a continuation of destabilisation of the full region,” helium said.

A antheral carries the assemblage of three-year-old Palestinian Nour Abu Ouda, killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected the Gaza Strip, astatine Al-Aqsa Hospital successful Deir el-Balah, connected September 14, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

US-Israeli relations stay strong

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that ties with the United States remained strong, contempt Washington’s unease implicit the onslaught successful Qatar. Hosting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio successful Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that relations were “as beardown and durable arsenic the stones successful the Western Wall”.

Rubio claimed that US President Donald Trump was “not happy” astir the Israeli onslaught successful Doha, but maintained that US-Israeli relations remained “very strong”.

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan, said that Washington was trying to negociate the fallout. “The US is surely going to bash immoderate harm control, saying that the strikes connected Doha are not going to alteration the narration with Israel, but immoderate conversations volition request to beryllium had,” she said.

Meanwhile, Israeli ministers person pledged to proceed pursuing Hamas leaders abroad. Minister of Energy Eli Cohen declared, “Hamas cannot slumber peacefully anyplace successful the world,” including successful NATO subordinate authorities Turkiye.

Another minister, Ze’ev Elkin, said: “We volition prosecute them and settee accounts with them, wherever they are.”

Israeli media aboriginal reported that Mossad main David Barnea had opposed the Qatar strike, fearing it would derail ceasefire negotiations. A columnist successful the Israeli paper Maariv wrote that Barnea believed Hamas leaders “can beryllium eliminated astatine immoderate fixed moment”, but had warned that attacking Doha risked torpedoing a woody to merchandise captives Hamas had taken from Israel during its onslaught connected October 7, 2023.

Since Israel began its warfare connected Gaza aft the Hamas attack, astatine slightest 64,871 Palestinians person been killed and 164,610 injured, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Separately, the Israeli paper Haaretz reported that Israel’s Ministry of Defence is treating astir 20,000 wounded soldiers, with much than fractional suffering from intelligence trauma and estimates suggesting that by 2028, the fig could emergence to 50,000.