Published On 14 Sep 2025
The Israeli military is intensifying its navy operations in Gaza City, threatening Palestinians to evacuate southwards as assaults speed up.
According to a military publish on X, greater than 250,000 individuals have reportedly fled town. The navy is urging remaining residents to journey through al-Rashid Street in direction of al-Mawasi or camps in central Gaza.
However, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud stated, “Despite intense bombardment in Gaza City, many residents have stayed put – or returned after in search of shelter elsewhere – as a result of a lot of Israel’s designated evacuation zones are desperately overcrowded and under-resourced, together with missing correct water entry.”
The United Nations estimates from late August indicated roughly a million Palestinians had been dwelling in and round Gaza’s largest city centre, the place famine situations are taking maintain after months of deteriorating circumstances.
The UN and worldwide group have known as on Israel to desert its plans to seize town, warning that such an assault may worsen the humanitarian disaster.
Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee claimed on Saturday on X: “More than 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 residents of Gaza City have moved out of town for their very own security.” Gaza’s Civil Defence company contradicted this determine, reporting fewer than 70,000 individuals had managed to go away.
The Israeli navy dropped leaflets Saturday, warning western district residents to evacuate amid steady air raids. “The Israeli military is working with very intense drive in your space and is decided to dismantle and defeat Hamas,” the leaflets acknowledged. “You have been warned.”
Mohammad Abu Salmiya, head of the al-Shifa Hospital, instructed the AFP information company that whereas displacement continues inside Gaza City, “solely a small variety of individuals have been capable of attain the south”. He added that those that do flee south usually discover nowhere to remain, as “the al-Mawasi space is totally full and Deir el-Balah can also be overcrowded”, inflicting many to return to Gaza City.
Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal instructed AFP, “The precise variety of displaced individuals from Gaza to the south is roughly 68,000 solely. Many residents are nonetheless holding their floor, and plenty of others can’t discover area within the south.”
Bakri Diab, a 35-year-old father of 4 who fled western Gaza City, reported that air raids had been persevering with within the south as effectively. “Bombing occurs right here too – the south isn’t secure both,” he stated. “All the occupation has finished is drive individuals to crowd into locations with no primary companies and no security.”
