(16 Sep 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 September 2025
1. Various of people mourning their killed relatives
2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Um Mohammad Salem, lost number of her relatives:
“There were children. I swear, it is not their fault. For whom we should grieve. I swear, our hearts are tired. We are tired of this life we are living. We have been displaced. What is our fault in what is happening? It is not our fault. Let us live.”
3. People mourning their killed relatives
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Soad Sakani, lost her daughter and her grandchildren:
”Either kill us all or have mercy on us. Have mercy on us, people. Have mercy on us a little. Where are the people going? They go to the south but don’t have money for transportation. Where do they go? Where will they throw themselves into tents? Where do we go? What has the world done for us? We don’t want aid. We want safety and stability.”
5. Various of injured people sitting on the ground
6. Various of woman mourning her killed relatives
STORYLINE:
Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight and into Tuesday killed at least 34 Palestinians, according to the Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.
Palestinian residents reported heavy strikes Tuesday across Gaza City as Israel’s defense minister said that “Gaza is burning,” in remarks that came as a new Israeli ground offensive targeted the city.
An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military guidelines, said that the “main phase” of the Gaza City operation had begun, with troops moving in from the city’s outskirts toward its center.
Airstrikes have pounded Gaza City for some time in the leadup to the operation, knocking down towers in the city.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.
Most of the hostages have since been released in ceasefires brokered in part by Qatar or other deals.
Israel believes around 20 of the 48 hostages still held by the militants in Gaza are alive.
Hamas has said it will only free remaining hostages in return for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 64,871 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t say how many were civilians or combatants.
The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals, says women and children make up around half the dead.
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