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‘City of fear’: Palestinians trapped as Israel intensifies Gaza City attack

A Palestinian woman carries the body of a baby killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City at dawn, before a funeral procession outside al-Shifa Hospital, on September 4, 2025 [Omar al-Qatta/AFP]

The Israeli military’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza City is reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble, forcing residents to flee in panic, with nowhere safe in the enclave, which has been under unrelenting bombardment for 23 months.

Israel’s round-the-clock assault on what UNICEF has dubbed the “city of fear” included an attack on a tent in the neighbourhood of Tal al-Hawa on Thursday that wiped out an entire family of five people, including three children.

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