Palestinians flee as Israel strikes Gaza City with ‘unprecedented force’

Israeli forces termination astatine slightest 43 radical crossed Gaza since dawn arsenic decease toll from man-made famine rises to 441.

Israel is pounding Gaza City with immoderate of the heaviest strikes successful 2 years of warfare successful its bid to unit residents to marque a perilous and costly travel towards the overcrowded south.

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, warned Gaza City’s beleaguered colonisation connected Friday that it would beryllium deploying “unprecedented force”, telling them to “take this accidental and articulation the hundreds of thousands” moving southbound connected al-Rashid coastal roadworthy – present the lone permitted flight route.

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Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum related “distressing” reports from Gaza City connected Friday, with radical forced westbound towards the coastal roadworthy incapable to remainder nether the relentless gait of attacks aimed astatine levelling buildings and infrastructure.

“This existent subject cognition is wholly destroying full blocks, and determination are inactive families who are trapped nether the debris of the targeted houses, peculiarly successful the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood,” said Abu Azzoum, reporting from Nuseirat successful cardinal Gaza.

While a increasing fig of Palestinians whitethorn present privation to leave, contempt their earlier resistance, galore are incapable to spend the outgo of renting a conveyance to instrumentality household items and furnishings to the overcrowded al-Mawasi country successful confederate Gaza.

Still, Abu Azzoum said hundreds person embarked connected the agelong journey, galore connected foot, to al-Mawasi, which has itself travel nether Israeli onslaught successful the past contempt being designated a “safe zone”.

Nivin Ahmed, 50, fled southbound from Gaza City to the cardinal metropolis of Deir el-Balah connected Thursday, walking with 7 household members.

“We walked much than 15km [9 miles], we were crawling from exhaustion,” she told the quality bureau AFP. “My youngest lad cried from fatigue. We took turns dragging a tiny cart with immoderate of our belongings.”

‘Dangerous concern connected each levels’

The Israeli subject said astir 480,000 Palestinians had fled Gaza City since precocious August, portion Gaza’s civilian defence bureau said connected Friday that immoderate 450,000 person been displaced towards the south.

Going connected United Nations estimates of immoderate 1 cardinal radical surviving successful the enclave’s largest municipality centre astatine that time, astir fractional the colonisation whitethorn already person fled.

However, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said this week that astir 740,000 radical were inactive successful the northbound of the enclave arsenic of Tuesday.

Israeli forces killed 43 radical crossed the Strip since dawn connected Friday, including 26 radical successful Gaza City, according to aesculapian sources.

Three civilians were killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught that targeted a residential location successful Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa, adjacent to the Netzarim Corridor, sources told Al Jazeera.

Friday’s decease toll besides includes 2 assistance seekers who were killed by the Israeli service successful confederate Gaza.

Displaced Palestinians astatine a assemblage room successful Khan Younis successful the confederate Gaza Strip connected September 19, 2025 [AFP]

A aesculapian root astatine Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful cardinal Gaza told Al Jazeera that a nine-year-old kid had died from terrible malnutrition successful the hospital’s paediatric ward amid the worsening famine successful the enclave.

The latest lawsuit brings the full fig of deaths from Israel’s man-made famine to 441 since the warfare connected Gaza began, according to Gaza Health Ministry figures.

Hospitals are struggling to header with nary substance having entered the Strip for much than 10 days, according to Amjad Shawa, caput of the Palestinian NGOs Network successful Gaza.

He said substance supplies successful the besieged enclave volition past conscionable 72 hours, portending a “dangerous concern connected each levels”.