Israeli strikes fail to uproot 1mln Palestinians from Gaza City, North
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Gaza's Government Media Office warns of mass forced displacement as "Israel" bombs densely populated areas and blocks access to basic life essentials.
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Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza along the coastal road toward the south, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 (AP)
Over a million Palestinians remain rooted in Gaza City and its north, refusing to be forced out to the south despite the savage bombardment carried out by the Israeli occupation as it carries out the crime of permanent forced displacement, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip affirmed in a press statement published on Tuesday.
The media office added that the majority of the 398,000 residents of North Gaza governorate were forced to displace to the western part of the governorate, in addition to over 914,000 residents of Gaza Governorate, among them nearly 350,000 who were forced to flee from eastern neighborhoods toward the center and west of the city.
The statement added that government crews had recently observed an increase in forced displacement from Gaza City toward the south as a result of the occupation's brutal crimes, with approximately 190,000 citizens forced to flee their homes under intense bombardment.
Palestinians flee unlivable conditions in the South
The Government Media Office in Gaza, conversely, reported that its crews had observed a counter-displacement movement, with over 15,000 people returning to their places in Gaza City by Tuesday afternoon after having first moved their possessions south for safekeeping, then turning back due to the utter lack of viable living conditions in the south.
The office further clarified that these areas suffer from a complete absence of basic life essentials, including hospitals, infrastructure, and critical services, such as water, food, shelter, electricity, and education, a situation it stated "makes living there closer to impossible."
It also indicated that the area designated by the occupation for so-called shelter zones does not exceed 12% of the Gaza Strip, attempting to cram more than 1.7 million people into this space as part of a plan to establish what it described as "concentration camps" within its systematic forced displacement policy aimed at depopulating both northern Gaza and Gaza City.
The office concluded by urgently calling on the international community, the United Nations, and international courts and legal institutions to take immediate, serious action to stop these crimes, bring the occupation's leaders to justice in competent courts, and guarantee the protection of civilians and their right to remain on their land in safety and with dignity.
