(9 Sep 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 9 September 2025
1. Various of family packing belongings into van from home
2. Various of trucks and donkey carts loaded with people and their belongings evacuating the city
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anwar al-Khalili, displaced man from Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, Gaza City:
“Our children are being killed, our sons are being killed. I lost four young men, and I fear for the lives of my other children. I want to flee. The Jews tell us to go south. When we go south, there is bombing and fear.”
4. Various of vehicles loaded with people and their belongings evacuating the city
5. Wide of Yousef Rajih sitting next to damaged house
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousef Rajih, Gaza resident:
“I don’t have the financial means to leave. We won’t leave, we won’t get out of here because we can’t leave. We need 2,000-3,000 shekels ($600-$900) for transportation. How can I afford this amount? We also don’t have tents. A tent costs 3,000 shekels. It’s difficult. We will remain patient and raise our complaints to Allah.”
7. Wide of Etaf al-Attar, Gaza Resident, sitting and talking
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Etaf al-Attar, Gaza Resident:
“I don’t have any money, I can’t afford food, I swear to God, I can’t afford food, how can I get a tent? How can I bring it? I have daughters and I have disabled people.”
9. Various of child standing next to tent and belongings
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Amjad, Gaza resident:
“I don’t have a single shekel. He (driver) asks me for 2,000 shekels for the car, which is $600. Where will that come from? I don’t have a single shekel. How can I afford $600? The driver says, ‘I want the cost of diesel, I’m not being unfair to you with this price.’ He has the right to do so. He wants the cost of diesel. I don’t have the money to leave. I will stay here. Either I live or I die. But I swear I won’t leave."
11. Wide of Fawzi Muftah, displaced man in Gaza City, standing next to his tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Fawzi Muftah, displaced man in Gaza City:
“We were threatened. They dropped leaflets on us three or four times. They told us to leave the Gaza Strip and go to a safe zone. There is no safe zone in the Gaza Strip. From north to west to south. There is no safe zone. Danger is everywhere.”
13. Wide of vehicles loaded with belongings evacuating Gaza City
STORYLINE:
As Israel’s military warned Gaza City residents on Tuesday to evacuate ahead of its planned offensive there, some Palestinians packed up their belongings and left, while others lacked the money to get out and some simply refused to leave their homes again.
Hundreds of thousands of people remain struggling under conditions of famine in the city.
“I don’t have the financial means to leave," Yousef Rajih told the Associated Press.
"We won’t leave, we won’t get out of here because we can’t leave."
Abu Amjad, another Gaza City resident, was in a similar situation.
“I don’t have a single shekel," he said, explaining that a driver would charge him around 2,000 shekels to get out, the equivalent of $600.
"He wants the cost of diesel. I don’t have the money to leave," Amjad said.
"I will stay here. Either I live or I die. But I swear I won’t leave."
Tuesday’s warnings directed at Gaza City were the first calling for a full evacuation.
Until now, the military has only told specific sections of the northern city to evacuate ahead of operations or strikes.
Associated Press reporters saw lines of cars and trucks leaving, more than previous days passing from northern to southern Gaza on Tuesday.
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