Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C.
Author: Kamran Faqir
Article Date Published: 24 Sept 2025 at 18:42 GMT
Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | US-Israel At War
Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
GAZA CITY — At least 84 Palestinians were killed today, “from dawn to dusk”, in some of the deadliest bombardments since Israel launched its renewed ground push in Gaza City. Health authorities reported that 50 of the dead were in the city itself, with dozens more killed in strikes on refugee camps and displacement sites to the south. Hospitals across central and southern Gaza were inundated as ambulances raced to receive the wounded and dead.
Massacre At Firas Market:
One of the starkest tragedies unfolded at Firas Market in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. An Israeli strike obliterated a building sheltering displaced families at dawn.
- Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital staff confirmed at least 17 fatalities, including children, while Palestinian media later reported the toll at 20.
- Eyewitness Sami Hajjaj told Reuters:
“We were sleeping in God’s care… it was a surprise. There are children and women, around 200 people maybe, six to seven families, this square is full of families.”
- Palestinian journalists circulated images of medics pulling corpses from rubble with their bare hands, while survivors screamed for help.
Hospitals in Collapse:
Gaza’s health system is buckling under relentless strikes, siege, and mass casualties.
“We are really just hanging on here. It is really bad. We are at our absolute limit.” — Mohamed Saqr, director of nursing, Nasser Hospital.
Emergency wards are overflowing; pediatric wards treat children on floors and in hallways; fuel shortages force life-support machines offline.
“Everyone is hungry, malnourished, has lost their home and loved ones, and everyone is scared. We have not got enough of anything.” — Dr. Martin Griffiths, trauma surgeon, al-Muwasi field hospital.
The WHO has publicly warned that Gaza’s hospitals are on the “brink of collapse,” describing the assault and blockade as drivers of new waves of displacement and catastrophic medical need.
Relentless Strikes On Refugees:
Beyond Gaza City, strikes hit tents in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing four members of one family and wounding dozens more. In Khan Younis, a drone attack killed at least one civilian near Nasser Hospital.
“This is not a battlefield; it is a slaughterhouse. They are hitting tents, schools, hospitals.” — Um Mohammed, displaced mother in Khan Younis
Civil defence teams report that entire neighbourhoods in Sheikh Radwan, Tal al-Hawa, and Sabra have been flattened, with homes deliberately demolished by explosive-laden vehicles.
Displacement At Scale:
The Israeli offensive, Operation Gideon Chariots 2, has triggered mass displacement.
Gaza Civil Defence estimates 450,000 people have fled Gaza City southward, while nearly one million remain trapped in the north amid bombardment and shortages.
“The ongoing bombardment and displacement are pushing Gaza’s health system to total collapse.” — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
Israel’s Framing vs Reality:
The Israeli military claims operations target Hamas militants embedded in population centres. A spokesperson said troops struck “two militants” today while attempting to “minimise civilian casualties.”
Yet hospitals, markets, and displacement shelters bear the brunt. Medics, rights groups, and survivors argue the civilian toll is deliberate.
“There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount, the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.” — Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International.
Historical Context: Continuity Of Violence.
The current assaults are not isolated. Gaza’s destruction is part of a decades-long trajectory:
Historical Timeline:
- 1948 – Nakba: Over 750,000 Palestinians expelled; hundreds of villages destroyed.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel occupies Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.
- 2008–2014 – Gaza Wars: Repeated Israeli offensives kill tens of thousands and displace civilians.
- 2007–2023 – Siege: Near-total blockade, chronic shortages, and restricted movement.
- 7 Oct 2023: Hamas attacks Israel; Israel responds with aerial bombardment, starting the two-year war.
- 2024–2025: Escalation of strikes on hospitals, markets, and shelters; Gaza described as approaching genocide.
- 24 Sep 2025: At least 84 Palestinians killed; hospitals collapse under continuous bombardment.
Beyond Today: A Calculated Project.
The airstrikes on tents, markets, and shelters are not episodic tragedies but a deliberate project. Israel has engineered Gaza into a society of unliveable conditions, encroached upon by encampments and “air prisons,” where survival depends entirely on the occupying army. Within this system, massacres are structural outcomes of a doctrine treating civilians as expendable.
“Everyone is hungry, malnourished, has lost their home and loved ones, and everyone is scared. We have not got enough of anything.” — Dr. Martin Griffiths, trauma surgeon.
The dehumanisation is evident not only in the death toll, over 100,000 killed, hundreds of thousands wounded, but in the destruction of essential infrastructure: food, water, schools, hospitals, and homes. This is social erasure by design, aimed at making life so unbearable that mass displacement becomes inevitable.
International law classifies famine, forced transfers, and systematic attacks on civilians as crimes of extermination and genocide. The ICJ and ICC underscore the overwhelming evidence, yet enforcement remains paralysed by geopolitics. Israel continues operations with near-total impunity, supported by U.S. weapons, diplomatic cover, and global silence.
“There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount, the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.” — Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International.
The Global Reckoning:
Gaza has been transformed from a besieged enclave into a militarised killing ground. Survivors are corralled into shrinking zones stripped of basic life conditions. Every demolished hospital, bombed market, and starving child reflects a strategy not of security, but of deliberate dehumanisation and forced displacement.
The world now faces a defining choice: allow a modern genocide to unfold openly or enforce accountability before Gaza becomes both the graveyard of a people and the graveyard of international law.
“This is not only the destruction of a people but of the idea that international law still exists.” — Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch.
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