As the world’s attention was focused on Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of Gaza, resulting in the deaths of over 50 people on Tuesday. Among the casualties were nine Palestinians who had gathered in the southern part of the enclave in search of aid. The Israeli offensive persisted in Gaza City after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised Palestinians to flee to the south for their lives. According to the Wafa news agency, a drone strike on a makeshift tent sheltering displaced families at Gaza’s port killed two civilians and injured several others. Warplanes also targeted numerous residential buildings, including homes in the al-Mukhabarat area and the Zidan building northwest of Gaza City, among others.
Another house was reportedly bombed in the Talbani neighborhood of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, while two young men were killed in an attack on civilians in the az-Zarqa area of Tuffah, northeast of Gaza City. Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency confirmed footage showing an Israeli strike on the Ibn Taymiyyah mosque in Deir el-Balah, capturing the moment before the mosque’s minaret was engulfed in smoke. Despite the blast, the minaret appeared to remain standing. Israel issued new evacuation threats on Monday, warning Palestinians to leave a highlighted building and nearby tents on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street in Gaza City or face death. Residents were advised to relocate to the so-called “humanitarian area” in al-Mawasi, a barren stretch of coast in southern Gaza.
However, al-Mawasi itself has been bombed repeatedly despite Israel’s claims of it being a safe zone. At the start of the year, approximately 115,000 people resided there, but now aid agencies estimate that over 800,000 people – nearly a third of Gaza’s population – are living in overcrowded makeshift camps. Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, described al-Mawasi as a vast camp “concentrating hungry Palestinians in despair.” He emphasized that there is no safe place in Gaza, not even a humanitarian zone, and that warnings of famine have gone unheeded. The Palestinian Civil Defence stated that “Gaza City is burning, and humanity is being annihilated,” with five high-rise towers containing over 200 apartments destroyed in just 72 hours, leaving thousands homeless. More than 350 tents sheltering displaced families were also flattened, resulting in nearly 7,600 people forced to sleep in the open, struggling against death, hunger, and unbearable heat.
Over 64,000 Palestinians, including 20,000 children, have been killed in the Israeli offensive, which has been labeled as genocide by numerous scholars and activists. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes. The Government Media Office in Gaza stated that more than 1.3 million people remain in Gaza City and surrounding areas despite Israeli efforts to relocate them. It described the evacuation orders as “the crime of forced displacement in violation of all international laws.” More than 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced multiple times in 23 months of genocidal war, and an Israeli restriction on aid entry has resulted in starvation deaths. The UN declared a famine in Gaza last month, affecting half a million people.
On Tuesday morning, Palestinians in central Gaza protested against the latest evacuation orders, carrying banners emphasizing their refusal to leave. Bajees al-Khalidi, a displaced Palestinian at the protest, stated that the primary goal of the Israeli occupation is displacement, but there is no safe place left, either in the south or the north. Violence escalated in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces killed two teenagers in the Jenin refugee camp.
Israel targeted Hamas leaders in Doha when they were meeting in the Qatari capital for talks on the latest ceasefire proposal. Hamas confirmed that its leadership survived the assassination attempt, and Qatar condemned the attack as a “reckless criminal act.” The UN chief called it a “flagrant violation” of Qatar’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The White House claimed to have warned Qatar about the impending strike, but Doha denied this, stating that the warning came after the bombing began. Trump later expressed regret over the location of the attack and assured Qatar that it would not happen again, attributing the decision to Prime Minister Netanyahu and emphasizing that unilaterally bombing inside a sovereign nation and close ally does not advance Israel or America’s goals.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10/israel-kills-dozens-in-gaza-qatar-calls-israels-attack-state-terror?traffic_source=rss
