Israel pushes further into Gaza City, killing and displacing Palestinians

The Israeli subject is pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying full neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with obscurity harmless to go, arsenic it seeks to prehend the Strip’s largest municipality centre, portion an Israeli-induced famine grips the besieged enclave.

An onslaught connected a fashionable marketplace eastbound of Gaza City connected Tuesday killed astatine slightest 5 Palestinians and injured galore others. Sources astatine al-Ahli Arab Hospital told Al Jazeera that 2 women were among those killed.

Videos verified by Al Jazeera showed Palestinians fleeing the as-Saftawi area, northbound of Gaza City, arsenic Israel attempts to unit adjacent to 1 cardinal residents southwards to attraction zones.

The footage captured agelong lines of men, women and children moving on dusty and ravaged streets, galore carrying bags, blankets and mattresses. Some pushed carts piled with belongings portion others held children by the manus arsenic they moved westward connected foot.

Israel has wholly destroyed much than 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City since it started its sustained battle connected the metropolis connected August 6, according to estimates by the Palestinian Civil Defence.

Gaza City nonmigratory and writer Sara Awad said Palestinian families had to take betwixt braving Israel’s aggravated bombardment astatine location oregon being displaced yet again.

“All the time, I’m wondering wherefore I indispensable fly and unrecorded successful a tent, portion my [home] is here,” Awad said. Every day, she sees much Palestinian families packing up their belongings contempt having obscurity to go.

“It doesn’t marque consciousness to permission my location portion they are treating america not arsenic quality beings,” she said. Yet, she said she believed Palestinians were “living successful [their] last days successful Gaza City”.

At slightest 64 Palestinians were killed successful Israeli attacks crossed Gaza since dawn, infirmary sources told Al Jazeera, including 13 radical who were killed seeking desperately needed aid.

Since the United States- and Israeli-backed GHF took implicit assistance operations successful precocious May, much than 2,100 Palestinians person been killed seeking aid, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

The United Nations humanitarian bureau (OCHA) warned successful its latest update of worsening starvation, mounting casualties and collapsing services crossed the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Health Ministry said 3 much hunger-related deaths were recorded successful the past 24 hours, raising the full fig of radical who starved to death since October 7, 2023, to 303, including 117 children.

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, told Al Jazeera that Israel was seeking “to destruct and annihilate the Palestinian radical by conducting not lone genocide, but besides taste cleansing”.

He argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pushing to “remap” the Middle East and make “economic hegemony, governmental hegemony [and] quality hegemony implicit the full Middle East”.

Condemnation continues aft Nasser Hospital attack

Legal experts person been calling for Israel to beryllium investigated implicit its “double-tap” attack connected Gaza’s Nasser Hospital connected Monday, which killed astatine slightest 21 people, including 5 journalists. So-called “double-tap” attacks entail striking a people and waiting for exigency responders and journalists to get connected the country earlier bombing it a 2nd time.

Netanyahu said successful a connection released successful English lone that Israel profoundly regretted what helium characterised arsenic a “tragic mishap”, without explaining however Israel had deed the aforesaid infirmary not erstwhile but doubly successful evident error.

Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Nice said Israel’s admittance of mistake was “very interesting”.

“[This] means they should present not lone beryllium investigated, but investigated with implicit ferocity, successful bid to nutrient each the documents that would explicate what they’d intended to bash and however things went wrong,” Nice told Al Jazeera.

“If they can’t warrant a mistake successful presumption of [hitting a] due people with an assessed level of collateral damage, past they’ve committed a warfare crime.”

Abd Raouf Shaat, a photograph and video writer moving successful Gaza, expressed his grief astatine the onslaught of Palestinian media workers and resolved to proceed his work.

“Every day, we are saying farewell to a journalist,” helium told Al Jazeera. “But we volition proceed their enactment and their message.”

Several of those wounded successful the onslaught are receiving attraction for superior injuries.

Palestinian tv cameraman Jamal Badah who was heavy wounded during the Israeli onslaught connected Nasser Medical Complex successful Khan Younis, receives aesculapian attraction astatine a infirmary successful Gaza connected August 26, 2025 [Abdallah FS Alattar/Anadolu]

Human rights groups person accused the Israeli subject of committing warfare crimes successful its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. Leaked Israeli intelligence has revealed that 83 percent of each those killed since Israel began its warfare connected the enclave person been civilians, 1 of the highest civilian tolls successful modern conflicts.

Several of the journalists killed successful the bombing of Nasser Hospital worked for the planetary quality agencies Reuters and The Associated Press. One of them, Mohammad Salama, worked for Al Jazeera.

Israel has present killed much than 270 journalists and media workers successful Gaza since its warfare started successful October 2023, according to an Al Jazeera tally.

In preliminary findings released connected Tuesday, the Israeli subject claimed an enquiry into the incidental suggested the people had been a camera positioned successful the country by Hamas to surveil Israeli troops.

“In airy of this, the unit acted to destruct the camera,” the service said. Israel routinely justifies its deadly attacks crossed the Gaza Strip by claiming it was targeting Hamas.

Hamas called the accusation “baseless” and said Israel lacked immoderate evidence. It added that the assertion was “merely aimed astatine evading ineligible and motivation work for a full-fledged massacre”.

Israel has attacked hospitals aggregate times passim astir 2 years of its genocidal warfare connected Gaza, asserting that Hamas embeds itself successful and astir the facilities, without providing immoderate verifiable evidence.