The number of people leaving Gaza City has spiked in recent weeks

Описание: (14 Sep 2025)
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Wadi Gaza, Central Gaza Strip – 13 September 2025
1. Various of vehicles carrying belongings of people who evacuating from Gaza City to the south of Gaza Strip
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Eyada, displaced Palestinian from Beit Lahiya:
“The situation is very hard, a misery. There is no medicine, no safety, and no stability. There is nothing. Until when are we going to be like this? It has been two years in war, and the third year is about to start. Today, we walked from Bait Lahiya.”
3. Various of vehicles carrying belongings of people who evacuating from Gaza City to the south of Gaza Strip
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majdi Khafarna, displaced Palestinian from Beit Hanoun:
“This is not a life. We are walking. We are not able to move furniture, or clothes. This is all I could take with me. This is all I could take from the Mokhabrat (area in north of Gaza city). What is this life?”
5. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and people evacuating from the north
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majdi Khafarna, displaced Palestinian from Beit Hanoun:
“How I look is enough for the entire world to know about our suffering. Until now, I have walked some 15 kilometers. 15 kilometers with a car? You would want to give it two breaks. I am a human being without food, water, or anything. There are no resources along the road. Where are the international organizations? They take money at our expense. They can bring us water to drink on the road. They can bring donkey carts to transport us. Fear Allah.”
7. Various of people evacuating from the north
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Emtiyaz Saleh, displaced Palestinian from Gaza City:
“We are heading towards the unknown. We had to leave to save our souls and our children. Where are we going to go and where are they going to put us? Only Allah knows. We never imagined this would happen to us.”
9. Various of vehicles carrying belongings of people who evacuating from Gaza City to the south of Gaza Strip
STORYLINE:
In the wake of escalating hostilities and calls to evacuate Gaza City, the number of people leaving has spiked in recent weeks, according to aid workers.

However, many families remain stuck because of the cost of finding transportation and housing, while others having been displaced too many times and don’t want to move again, not trusting that anywhere in the enclave is safe.

“This is not a life. We are walking. We are not able to move furniture, or clothes. This is all I could take with me,” said Majdi Khafarna, a man displaced from Beit Hanoun.

In a message on social media on Saturday, Israel’s army told the remaining Palestinians in Gaza City to leave “immediately” and move south to what it’s calling a humanitarian zone.

Army spokesman Avichay Adraee said more than a quarter of a million people had left Gaza City — from an estimated 1 million who live in the area of north Gaza around the city.

The United Nations however, put the number of people who have left at around 100,000 between mid-August and mid-September.

The UN and aid groups have warned that displacing hundreds of thousands of people will exacerbate the dire humanitarian crisis.

Sites in southern Gaza where Israel is telling people to go are overcrowded, according to the UN, and it can cost money to move, which many people don’t have.

An initiative headed by the UN to bring temporary shelters into Gaza said more than 86,000 tents and other supplies were still awaiting clearance to enter Gaza as of last week.








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