Posted on August 28, 2025
At least 61 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn on Thursday, including 19 aid seekers, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune, while residents report an intensification of the military bombardment of the eastern and southern districts of Gaza City.
The Israeli army has prepared for taking Gaza City, the largest urban center in the enclave, despite international calls to reconsider the move on fears that the operation would cause significant victims and move around a million Palestinians who are housed.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres was one of those who criticized the campaign, saying Thursday that she “signals a new dangerous phase” in the war.
“The widening military operations in Gaza City will have devastating consequences. Hundreds of thousands of civilians, already exhausted and traumatized, would be forced to flee again, pushing even deeper families, “he said, calling for the” endless catalog of horrors “,
“It must stop,” he said, adding that the “disaster” in the enclave was “the result of deliberate decisions that challenge fundamental humanity”.
In Gaza City, the residents said that families were fleeing their homes and most of them headed for the coast while Israeli forces bombed the districts of Shujayea, Zeitoun and Sabra.
No building remains standing in the southern part of Zeitoun because the Israeli operation has demolished more than 1,500 houses, according to the Civil Defense Agency in Gaza.
Israeli officials described Gaza City as the last bastion of Hamas.
‘Forced disappearance’
The Israeli army said in a statement that it continued to operate in Gaza to target combatants and their infrastructure.
The army said on Thursday that she had killed three fighters in the last day without saying how he had identified the individuals.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that people killed through Gaza included a woman and her child reflecting in a tent camp for the displaced people in Khan Younis on Thursday.
Meanwhile, United Nations rights experts expressed the alarm in “forced disappearances” of hungry Palestinians in search of food on distribution sites managed by the GHF supported by the United States and Israeli, urging Israel to end the “odious crime”.
The seven independent experts said in a joint statement that they had received information that a number of people, including a child, had “disappeared by force” after contributing to Rafah distribution sites in southern Gaza.
“The forced disappearance reports targeting hungry civilians who are looking for their fundamental right to food are not only shocking, but is equivalent to torture,” said experts, who are mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council but who do not speak on behalf of the UN itself.
“The use of food as a tool to perform targeted and mass disappearances must end now.”
In response, the GHF said that he had found no evidence of “forced disappearances” on his help sites.
According to the AFP news agency, the GHF has declared in response to the declaration of the experts: “We operate in a war zone where serious allegations exist against all the parties operating outside our sites. But inside the GHF installations, there is no evidence of applied disappearances. ”
New famine deaths
With the enclave in taking a humanitarian crisis, the Gaza Ministry of Health also said Thursday that four other people, including two children, died of malnutrition and famine in the enclave, which increased deaths related to 317 people, including 121 children, since the start of the war.
“The scene on the field is quite heartbreaking,” said Tareq Abu Azzoum from Tel Aviv Tribune to Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza.
“Families always queue in front of popular soups for hours in scorching heat, often to return empty-handed to their temporary shelters,” he said.
“Others risk their lives to go to distribution points to seek food aid.”
The military campaign of Israel has devastated the territory and moved most of the approximately two million Palestinians there.
It started after the October 2023 attacks in Hamas against Israel, which killed 1,139 people with 251 others in captivity. Most captives have since been released by diplomatic negotiations, although 50 remain in Gaza, 20 of which are supposed to be alive.
Israel, on the other hand, has not publicly responded to Hamas acceptance of a cease-fire proposal which would allow the return of certain captives.
Israeli officials, however, insisted that they would only accept an agreement that sees all the liberated captives and the surrender of Hamas.
According to local health officials, more than 62,900 Palestinians, most of them, were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza.