(31 Aug 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 28 August 2025
1. Various of displaced people walking between tents
2. Various of child sitting on rubble
3. Various of children among rubble
4. Wide of destruction
5. Various of woman baking bread in clay oven
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Qassem, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"Where are we going to go? If we want to leave, where are we going to go? You can see that all the areas have no space. There are people who were displaced yesterday and paid for transportation as much as 2,000 shekels ($601) and then they came back to find that their place has been taken. There is no space. Even if jets drop leaflets asking us to leave and we don’t find a place, we will not leave. If they want to hit us, let them. We die everyday."
7. Various of Qassem arranging loaves of bread
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Qassem, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"There is no food, no medicine, no water. I am a cancer patient, and I wish to eat an apple or fruit or tomato. There isn’t. There isn’t. Life is difficult and Gaza has been destroyed completely. It’s gone."
9. Various of displaced woman washing clothes
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fedaa Hamad, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"I have no plans to leave. We are tired from the first displacement. Where are we going to go? Is there a place in the south? We cannot find it. It’s good that I found this place and settled here. I have no plans to leave, and the girls (daughters) tell me everyday, ‘Let’s leave, mother, or we will die here.’ Life is one and God is one. We will die there, and we will die here. Let me stay here in Gaza, it’s better."
11. Various of people walking near destruction
12. Various of destruction
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Akram Mzini, resident from Gaza City:
"We will not leave because displacement is very difficult. We were displaced to the south before and displacement in the south is not simple and it is costly. We were displaced to Rafah, Deir al-Balah and Zawaida and life is very difficult. Life is difficult so we will stay in our home and whatever God wants will happen."
14. Various of people walking near destruction
STORYLINE:
On Thursday, a day before Israel announced that the entire Gaza City was considered a combat zone and stopped the tactical pauses for the entry of humanitarian aid, several Palestinians said they were not going to be displaced once again and decided to stay in the city.
On Friday, the Israeli military launched what it called the "initial stages" of a planned offensive on the city.
Gaza City residents said they will stay because they are tired, they have been displaced many times, it is costly to move out and they might not find a place in other areas south of Gaza City. Palestinians said that there is no safe place to go in the enclave.
Israel has repeatedly bombarded Gaza City and launched major ground operations there within weeks of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war. Several neighborhoods and key infrastructure have been almost completely destroyed.
It was Gaza’s most populous city on the eve of the war. Hundreds of thousands fled under Israeli evacuation orders at the start of the war on October 2023, but many returned during a ceasefire earlier this year.
More than 63,000 people have been killed in Gaza in the 22-month conflict, according to the health ministry that does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but that said about half of them are women and children.
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