Israel intensifies the bombing of Gaza City, forcing families to flee

The Israeli forces climbed their attack on Gaza City with a wave of heavy air strikes, which represents a sharp escalation of previous military operations.

Unlike the previous stages of the war, the current attack relied heavily on air strikes, while reducing entire residential blocks and large concrete structures to the rubble.

The intensification of strikes in recent days has led to an increase in civil displacement.

Israel has warned all the residents of Gaza City against leaving immediately in anticipation of a huge land attack.

On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that about 250,000 people left the city and moved south. She also said that she had destroyed a tall building that he had been used to “advance and carry out terrorist attacks” against his forces.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the city is the last great stronghold in Hamas. But the Gaza City occupation plan brought international criticism.

The United Nations warned that the attack was intensified in an area where a famine has already been declared to push civilians to a “deeper disaster.” Gaza City is the largest urban center in the region and a historical heart of Palestinian political and social life.

Residents say that the Israeli army is targeting schools and temporary shelters, and it is often warned only moments before the bombing.

Many families were forced to flee in the dark towards Gaza west.

“We escaped from a certain death, my husband and our three children,” said Sally Tafish, the mother who refers to the city in the city. “My brother died in my arms after he was shot by a drone as a vukopter. We ran in the dark to the west of Gaza.”

The Israeli army asked the population to evacuate the south of the region – but many families say they cannot bear the trip, which cost up to $ 1100 (800 pounds). Hamas, at the same time, has intensified its invitations to the residents to stay in a position and resist to leaving the city.

Robin Khaled, the father of nine, is preparing to move in the south, his frustration.

He said: “The preacher of Hamas in Friday prayers accused any person who leaves Gaza City from being a coward running from the battlefield.”

“But why does Hamas leaders not tell the surrender and the release of Israeli hostages so that this war can stop? We don’t want to leave either, but we have no choice.”

The Israeli forces have not yet reached some eastern neighborhoods, which have been largely intact since the previous raids in January, but the current campaign indicates that they may now seek to dismantle the entire areas.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized in an interview with BBC after the Israeli strike this week for Hamas officials in the Qatari capital.

“Dealing with Netanyahu’s problem.”

“He is not a person listening to anyone at the present time, listening to any reason, and we must stop him collectively in his paths,” the official said.

He said that the strike in Doha showed that the Israeli leader “was not aimed at signing any peace deal” to end the war in Gaza, and instead “he believes he can reshape the Middle East in his own form.”

Five members of the group and Qattari security officer were killed on a strike on Tuesday – although the Palestinian Armed Group claimed that he had not killed any senior leaders. Hamas members in Doha were to discuss the last American suggestion of the ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel faced a wide condemnation, Including in the United Nations Security Council. Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel targeted the “terrorist mastermind” behind the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel.

The Prime Minister in Qatar, Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman, said, the second earlier that Qatar had not received a pre -strike against the strike, only received a call from an American official 10 minutes after the attack began.

On Friday, “Second” took dinner with US President Donald Trump and his envoy Steve Witkev in New York, after meeting earlier from Vice President GD Verse and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio at the White House.

Rubio travels to Israel at the end of this week in a display of solidarity with Israel before the United Nations meeting later this month, and France and the United Kingdom are expected to recognize the Palestinian state.

On Saturday, the Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the bodies of 47 people were killed by the Israeli army had arrived at their hospitals during the previous day.

Since international food security experts unacceptable confirmed famine in Gaza City on August 22, the ministry stated that at least 142 people have passed away due to hunger and malnutrition across the region. Israel has said it expanded its efforts to facilitate the aid processes and extracted the Ministry of Health numbers over deaths related to malnutrition.

The Israeli army launched its campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 64,803 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.