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Israeli Army aims to forcibly displace over 1 million Palestinian civilians from Gaza City, while clergy from historic churches remain to support displaced residents despite evacuation orders.
- On August 26, 2025, Israeli forces intensified their military offensive to seize and evacuate Gaza City, displacing thousands of residents.
- The offensive follows Israel's August 14 announcement aiming to forcibly move over one million Palestinians from Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip amid escalating conflict.
- Israeli tanks, warplanes, and drones have destroyed neighborhoods, creating a dire famine and forcing mass evacuations despite limited shelter and humanitarian aid in southern areas.
- A military spokesperson stated on Wednesday that evacuating Gaza City is "inevitable," while over 36,200 Palestinians were displaced since August 14 and at least 76 were killed in recent attacks.
- The offensive risks deepening Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, with many residents refusing to leave due to unsafe conditions and the destruction of towns like Jabalia, while local churches pledge to remain and serve the displaced.
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Orthodox Church in Gaza City ordered to evacuate by Israeli army
Church leaders have vowed that clergy and nuns won’t leave, will stay to assist those who cannot flee, as IDF plans Gaza City conquest The post Orthodox Church in Gaza City ordered to evacuate by Israeli army appeared first on Jerusalem World News.
On August 8, the security cabinet led by Benjamin Netanyahu launched its plan to occupy the main population core of the Gaza Strip, and since then the countdown is in motion. The operation is pursuing the expulsion, in a few weeks, of the million people that United Nations agencies estimate to “exist” in Gaza City. “And I say exist because there is no way to call this life,” laments a UN spokesman from inside the enclave. Once the civilian popul…
“The clergy and nuns have decided to stay and continue to care for all those in the complexes.” This is the response of the Greek Orthodox and Latino patriarchates to the first evacuation order launched by the Israeli army in Gaza City. The historic Christian community in the Gaza Strip resists abandoning complexes that have become shelters for hundreds of people since October 7, 2023, many of them sick and elderly. Churches challenge an evacuat…
“This is Eternal Displacement”: Israeli Onslaught on Gaza City Forcing Thousands to Flee With Nowhere to Go
The genocide in Gaza continues to descend to new depths with an Israeli operation underway to seize and ethnically cleanse Gaza City. Palestinians there describe the situation with utter despair and a sense of finality if Israel is not stopped.Journalist Abdel Qader Sabbah, who has been tirelessly reporting from the north since the beginning of the war, filed the story you are about to read on the mass displacement happening in Gaza City. He sai…
Israeli tanks is penetrated into a new area on the periphery of Gaza City, destroying houses and forcing residents to flee.
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