'Israel' bombs tower housing Al Mayadeen office in Gaza
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Israeli raids destroyed Gaza’s tallest tower and intensified famine deaths, leaving dozens killed and many trapped under rubble.
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Palestinians search for wood to sell or use for cooking amid the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Sunday, September 14, 2025 (AP)
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported on Monday that Israeli fighter jets carried out heavy strikes on Gaza City, one of which leveled al-Ghafri Tower, the tallest building in the city, which housed several media offices, including Al Mayadeen’s bureau.
Nearby homes were also destroyed, and thick black smoke blanketed an area of roughly one square kilometer, sparking panic among residents. The bombardment came just minutes after the Israeli army warned inhabitants to evacuate the tower.
Since dawn, more than 40 people have been confirmed killed across the Strip, while hospitals have received at least 316 new injuries, according to the correspondent. Civil defense and ambulance crews said many victims remain trapped under the rubble and along the streets, unreachable due to ongoing shelling.
'Israel' expands aggression
In the southwest of Khan Younis, Israeli fire killed one Palestinian and injured four others in the Mawasi area.
Meanwhile, the famine in Gaza continues to claim lives. Seven children, including four fetuses and three premature infants, died at Nasser Medical Complex due to severe malnutrition. Over the past 24 hours, three more people were killed and 47 were wounded while seeking food aid, bringing the death toll from aid-related attacks to 2,497, with more than 18,182 injured.
The Gaza Health Ministry also recorded three additional deaths from starvation in recent hours, raising the toll from hunger and malnutrition to 425, including 145 children.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli assault on Gaza has killed at least 64,905 Palestinians and wounded more than 164,926, most of them women and children, while famine-related deaths have risen to 422, including 145 children.
Gaza’s Nasser Hospital warns it can’t cope with new influx of wounded
Doctors and staff at Gaza’s largest remaining hospital warn they will be unable to handle an influx of patients if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee the north amid an escalating Israeli genocide, The Guardian reported.
Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, said the facility is already stretched, with too few staff and dwindling medicine and fuel supplies.
“We have been working for more than 23 months in an emergency situation so we are all exhausted,” Saqr said in a voice note from the hospital on Friday. “Some of us are still in Israeli jails and others were killed inside the hospital and outside and others had to leave [the] Gaza Strip to escape death, so our numbers are not like before the war.”
Gaza is a 'wasteland'
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Sunday that the Gaza Strip is turning into a “wasteland” amid an intensifying Israeli genocide.
In a post on X, the agency said: “Gaza is being completely obliterated. It’s becoming a wasteland, and seems to become more and more unfit for human living.”
It added: “Children are starving. Families are forcibly displaced. People are terrified,” stressing that as the large-scale assault continues, “political will and decision-making is needed more than ever.”
