(21 Sep 2025)
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Wadi Gaza, Central Gaza Strip – 20 September 2025
1. Various of hundreds of people carrying their belongings and fleeing Gaza City
2. Various of vehicles loaded with displaced people and their belongings moving to the south
3. Various of displaced man pushing his belongings in wheelchair
4. Woman carrying her cat and fleeing to the southern Gaza strip
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faris Sawafiri, displaced from east of Gaza City:
”We are headed toward the unknown, we are headed south to the unknown. Nobody knows where they are going. Are we going back to Gaza or not? Allah knows. The circumstances are hard, and life is hard. Everything in Gaza is hard beyond description.”
6. Various of injured boy sitting on a mattress on the back of a bicycle
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seif Abu Qomsan, displaced from Gaza City:
”The situation is hard and there are no life necessities. No water, electricity, or internet. People are forced to leave with nothing. They target us with things that you wouldn’t imagine, like science fiction. They target us with missiles that we have never heard of.”
8. Various of vehicles loaded with belongings of displaced people, moving to the south
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Zawaida, Central Gaza Strip – 20 September 2025
9. Various of tents of displaced people
10. Various of displaced woman hanging clothes to dry
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kifaiya Sobh, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
”Our tent was torn and shrapnels reached us. We were steadfast, but it was futile. There were missiles, quadcopters and F-16s, we were hit by everything. They hit the high-rise buildings. It has been 10 days; we came from Yarmouk to Zawaida.”
12. Various of Sobh sitting with her children inside their tent
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kifaiya Sobh, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
”We were crying all the way, for our country and for what happened to us. We feel sad for ourselves and for our children, they cry a lot. We cry for the martyrs we left under the rubble and our relatives we couldn’t save.”
14. Various of Sobh organizing utensils
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kifaiya Sobh, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
”All day long, we are chasing water. In Zawaida, there is no water at all. We got to the sea to get water to do laundry and the dishes.”
16. Various of garbage and wastewater near tents
17. Various of tents of displaced people
STORYLINE:
Scores of Palestinians continued to flee Gaza City on Saturday, as the Israeli army ramped up its large-scale military operations there.
Israel has been urging hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in the city to move south to what it calls a humanitarian zone.
It opened another corridor south of Gaza City for two days this week to allow more people to evacuate.
Families were seen moving south along the coastal Wadi Gaza route; some in trucks and others pushing carts with belongings.
“We are headed toward the unknown," said Faris Swafiri, one of the many displaced from Gaza City.
Exhausted mothers and fathers carried or pushed whatever little belongings they had been able to salvage.
Those too exhausted to continue stopped to catch their breath and give their children a much-needed break from the difficult journey.
Seif Abu Qomsan, a displaced man from Gaza City, said Palestinians were forced to leave "with nothing".
He accused Israel of targeting Palestinians with "things you wouldn’t imagine, like science fiction".
The Israeli military, which says it wants to “destroy Hamas’ military infrastructure”, hasn’t given a timeline for the offensive.
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