Israel pounds Gaza City, killing 49 and displacing 6,000 in a single day

Israeli forces person ramped up attacks connected Gaza City, systematically levelling buildings, including schools-turned-shelters tally by the United Nations, and sidesplitting astatine slightest 49 people.

The toll from Gaza City took the fig of Palestinians killed successful Israeli attacks crossed the Strip connected Saturday to 62.

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More than 6,000 Palestinians were besides displaced successful Gaza City by the relentless bombardment, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.

“Residents of Gaza City are present surviving successful highly hard conditions nether the continuous siege and bombardment,” said Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the agency.

Israeli forces launched strikes successful accelerated succession connected Gaza City, according to witnesses, successful a bid to wide the municipality centre for takeover, dropping leaflets informing starving and terrified Palestinians to fly for their lives.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said that Israeli combatant jets were dropping bombs “every 10 to 15 minutes” connected residential buildings and nationalist facilities, often failing to springiness radical capable clip to evacuate to safety.

“The gait and signifier of the attacks suggest 1 thing: The Israeli service is deliberately putting utmost unit connected places that are densely populated with displaced families,” helium said, adding that displaced radical were present concentrated successful the city’s occidental flank.

But, helium added, adjacent arsenic the subject pummels the city, galore residents are staying enactment oregon adjacent returning aft attempting the travel southbound to the “crammed and under-resourced” campy of al-Mawasi, wherever Israel has been often striking shelters.

Some 900,000 radical are inactive successful Gaza City.

Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the caput of al-Shifa Hospital, said residents were moving from the eastbound to the westbound of Gaza City, but “only a tiny fig of radical person been capable to scope the south”.

“Even those who negociate to fly southbound often find nary spot to stay, arsenic the al-Mawasi country is wholly afloat and Deir el-Balah is besides overcrowded,” said Abu Salmiya, adding that galore person returned to Gaza City aft failing to find structure oregon basal services.

The Israeli service claimed connected X that much than 250,000 radical had fled the enclave’s largest municipality centre.

Reverse displacement

Reporting from the south, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary witnessed a dependable watercourse of families arriving from the northbound to the al-Mawasi camp, believing that they were going to find “water, hygiene – everything that Israeli forces advertised”.

‏Displaced Palestinians, fleeing bluish Gaza owed to an Israeli subject operation, connected September 13, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

Three of the Israeli-backed GHF assistance organisation sites are located successful the al-Mawasi area, arsenic portion of Israel’s strategy to lure Palestinians southwards. However, quality rights groups and governments person harshly criticised the GHF aft much than 850 radical were changeable successful the vicinity of organisation sites, according to UN figures.

Faraj Ashour, a displaced Palestinian who mislaid his legs successful an Israeli attack, told Al Jazeera that helium would beryllium sending his 13-year-old lad “to his death” if helium dispatched him to find nutrient for the family.

Al-Mawasi was already crowded earlier Israel’s penetration of Gaza City, filled with Palestinians displaced from the eastbound parts of Rafah and Khan Younis. But now, it is astatine breaking point, with caller arrivals incapable to find abstraction to transportation their tents.

“I went to al-Mawasi, but the costs were excessively high… and it was astir intolerable to find a due spot without paying extra,” said Ashour. “We stayed 2 days. During that time, the structure adjacent to america was bombed, adjacent successful what they telephone a harmless zone.”

Having travelled from Gaza City, Ashour is present preparing with his household to determination back, arsenic portion of an evident inclination of reverse displacement, wherever hopeless radical instrumentality to the north.

“There was nary safety. It’s each lies. At first, I believed them, but I realised it was amended to instrumentality to Gaza City. If they’re going to termination me, whitethorn arsenic good beryllium successful Gaza City, alternatively than hazard everything successful al-Mawasi,” helium said.

The UN bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said connected Saturday that 86 percent of Gaza is either a militarised portion oregon subjected to displacement threats.

Dozens of Palestinians killed

The bulk of Israel’s attacks connected the Strip connected Saturday person been focused connected Gaza City, wherever combatant jets bombed 3 UN schools successful the Shati exile campy that were sheltering displaced Palestinians.

Survivors said the Israeli subject gave them small warning.

“We took our things and enactment them outside; minutes later, they started to weaponry the school,” said Fidaa al-Za’aneen. “We near with what we are wearing. Now I’m sitting successful a structure and I person thing for my children, nary pillow, nary blanket, nothing.”

For the past fewer weeks, the Israeli subject has levelled Gaza City’s high-rise towers 1 by one, repeatedly claiming the buildings are being utilized by Hamas, without providing immoderate evidence.

On Saturday, Israeli forces continued to people high-rise towers, with Minister of Defence Israel Katz posting a video purporting to amusement the Burj al-Nur operation crumbling to the ground.

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that 3 Israeli aerial strikes targeted the nationalist prosecution building, southwest of Gaza City.

Several Palestinians successful Gaza City were besides injured aft a termination drone attacked an outdoor eating hall, which was utilized arsenic a charging constituent for phones, laptops and lights.

Outside Gaza City, 7 of the dormant were bare Palestinians killed portion seeking assistance successful al-Wadi, successful the cardinal Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera Arabic reported an Israeli artillery onslaught connected cardinal Gaza’s Bureij campy that killed astatine slightest 1 person.

Hospital sources accidental that 4 radical were killed successful a onslaught connected a structure sheltering displaced radical astatine Palestine Stadium successful cardinal Gaza.

Three Palestinians were killed successful an Israeli onslaught connected the al-Amal neighbourhood, northwest of Khan Younis.

The Palestine Red Crescent tract infirmary said that 5 Palestinians were wounded successful an Israeli drone onslaught connected a displaced people’s structure successful Khan Younis.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that 7 people, including children, died from malnutrition-related causes implicit the erstwhile 24 hours, raising the toll from starvation to 420, including 145 children, since the commencement of the war.