Press Release: Veritas Press C.I.C. Author: Kamran Faqir Article Date Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 16:17 GMT Category: Middle East | Palestine-Gaza | US-Israel At War Source(s): Veritas Press C.I.C. | Multi News Agencies
Gaza City, August 26, 2025 — The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have escalated their offensive in Gaza City, deploying tanks and warplanes to the very heart of the city in an operation that is devastating civilian neighbourhoods. Reports from Gaza describe entire blocks being levelled, not merely damaged, with homes, schools, hospitals, and shelters destroyed or emptied of residents.
The military push marks a shift toward overwhelming force, with artillery units heavily employed in the eastern sectors of Gaza City. Neighbourhoods including Zeitoun, Shejaia, Sabra, and Jabalia have seen indiscriminate bombardment, leaving families with nowhere to flee. Analysts warn that the strategy appears less focused on precise targeting and more on erasing Gaza’s urban fabric.
“This is not about striking militants, it is about erasing what remains of Gaza City,” said a local activist. “Entire neighbourhoods are being emptied, and people have nowhere to go.”
Civilian Toll Rising:
The humanitarian cost is mounting rapidly. On Tuesday, August 26, an Israeli airstrike near Al-Istijaba Mosque in southern Gaza City killed three Palestinians, according to the Palestine News & Information Agency (Wafa). The total death toll for the day reached 51, including 20 in northern Gaza, 13 in central areas, and 18 in the south.
Hospitals and shelters, once sanctuaries for displaced families, are increasingly caught in the crossfire. The bombardment has left Gaza’s civilians trapped amid collapsing infrastructure, with humanitarian corridors largely inaccessible.
Journalists Targeted Amid Assault:
The conflict has also claimed the lives of journalists covering the siege. Mariam Dagga, 33, a freelance visual journalist reporting from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Known for documenting the civilian toll of the war, her death highlights the extreme dangers faced by media personnel in Gaza.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) have condemned the killings, calling for immediate investigations.
International Condemnation and Israeli Justification:
Despite international outcry, Israel has vowed to continue its operations unless Hamas surrenders and releases all hostages. Defence Minister Israel Katz emphasised that the military offensive would not pause until these conditions are met.
Diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire are ongoing, but the scale of destruction and civilian suffering underscores the urgency of intervention.
A City Under Siege:
Gaza City’s residents face a grim reality: their homes erased, neighbourhoods emptied, and vital infrastructure obliterated. Humanitarian agencies warn that continued bombardment risks a complete collapse of civilian life in the city.
As families flee or hide amid the rubble, the question looming over the international community is stark: will decisive action be taken to halt the violence, or will Gaza’s urban landscape—and its people, continue to be erased?
In Conclusion: Gaza On The Edge, Genocide, Erasure, And The Removal Of Indigenous Palestinians.
The IDF’s intensified offensive in Gaza City is not merely a military operation; it is a strategy designed for forced displacement, turning entire neighbourhoods into kill zones. Tanks, warplanes, and artillery are systematically erasing residential areas, leaving civilians with nowhere to flee. Families are trapped amid collapsing buildings, hospitals, schools, and shelters, while humanitarian corridors remain blocked or inaccessible.
Eyewitnesses, doctors, and humanitarian organisations describe a pattern of destruction that goes beyond conventional warfare: entire districts are being razed in a deliberate effort of erasure. Analysts warn that these tactics amount to ethnic cleansing, with the civilian population intentionally uprooted. The patterns of violence, kill zones, systematic erasure, and forced displacement signal acts of genocide.
We are witnessing, in real time, the absolute control of the remaining occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) and the deliberate removal, massacre, and erasure of the Indigenous Palestinian people. This campaign is unfolding with the tacit and explicit support of Western regimes, who continue to provide political and military backing while the humanitarian catastrophe escalates in full view of the world.
Activists, the Palestinian Red Crescent, Amnesty International, and other human rights organisations are documenting these operations as flagrant violations of international law. Journalists covering the conflict face lethal danger, underscoring the broader campaign’s disregard for human life and international norms.
Gaza City today faces a grim reality: neighbourhoods erased, families forcibly displaced, and the civilian population trapped in a siege engineered to erase not just people, but their history and presence on the land. The international community risks complicity in a deliberate campaign of death and displacement unless enforceable interventions, humanitarian access, and accountability measures are urgently implemented.
The world is watching, but watching is no longer enough. Gaza’s Indigenous population is under attack, and the erasure of their presence, culture, and land is unfolding before our eyes. Immediate, decisive action is the only safeguard against the full realisation of this systematic campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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