On Friday, September 19th, 2025, day 714 of the Israeli genocide of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued the mass displacement of a million Palestinians from Gaza City, while carrying out a bombing campaign of extermination aimed at civilian apartment buildings and homes, as well as tent camps of displaced civilian families. At least 44 civilians have been killed in Israeli bombings on Friday.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that “ongoing ground raids and operations on Gaza City continue to inflict heavy losses on exhausted civilians,” while “the influx of newly displaced people into the southern Gaza Strip increases pressure on already exhausted services.”
At the daily press conference in New York, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said his colleagues on the ground reported that people “arrive until late at night, many of them walking for long hours without food, water or shelter”.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said today, Friday, that the cost of displacement from Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip amounts to $3,180, amid crowded spaces for setting up tents and citizens not receiving any income.
The Agency explained, “The transportation fee costs $1,000, buying a family tent costs $2,000, and renting the plot of land on which the tent is built costs $180”.
He pointed out that the Rashid coastal road is the only corridor available to civilians, “and it remains very crowded, with vehicles, donkey carts, tuk-tuks and pedestrians heading south amid escalating attacks”.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza issued a dire warning on Friday, stating that hospitals in Gaza City are now operating under catastrophic conditions, with patient occupancy surpassing 250%.
Medical teams are overwhelmed, essential supplies are nearly exhausted, and only limited care can still be offered.
With nearly 800,000 residents remaining in the city and mass displacement compounding the crisis, the health system is collapsing under the weight of relentless bombardment, widespread hunger, and the growing inability to provide life-saving treatment.
Australian doctors Dr. Nada Aburok and Dr. Saia Aziz describe the situation in Gaza hospitals as a “nightmare,” with severe shortages of medical supplies, water, and food.
Most patients are children and pregnant women, many the sole survivors of their families, being treated on floors amid mass casualty crises.
The Guardian publishes a new Acled study shows that 15 of every 16 Palestinians killed since March have been civilians, one of the highest death rates in the war.
Since the offensive resumed on March 18th with Israel’s violation of a negotiated ceasefire, more than 16,000 Palestinians have been killed, pushing the total since October 2023 to over 65,000, mostly civilians, with nearly 90% of homes damaged.
The following attacks by Israeli forces were documented by local sources in Gaza on Friday:
11 pm
Eight people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house near the Bank of Palestine in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest Gaza City.
10 pm
Multiple Palestinians were reported killed and others injured following an Israeli airstrike on a home in al-Sabra neighborhood, southern Gaza City.
8 pm:
Israeli aircraft launched an airstrike on the Al-Kateeba area in central Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery shelled the northern areas of Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza Strip.
4 pm
While searching for survivors beneath the rubble in Gaza City, a Palestinian civil defense worker came under direct fire from an Israeli quadcopter drone today
3 pm
Palestinians were forced to flee after an Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Nasr neighborhood, leaving several buildings destroyed and completely unusable.
Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza City under intense Israeli bombardment. Southern areas, where many are seeking refuge, were also hit today, killing several civilians, including two children.
Intense and relentless Israeli bombardment on Gaza has left dozens of families torn apart, with many killed and injured.
UPDATED FROM:
10:22 AM REPORT
Before dawn on Friday, Israeli forces killed a at least fourteen Palestinians, and injured dozens, in several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said five slain Palestinians were moved to the Shifa Medical Center, three to the Baptist Hospital, five to Al-Awda Hospital and one to the Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Two children were killed following an occupation raid on a tent housing displaced people west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The sources added that a citizen was killed and others were injured in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of the vicinity of the Old City Mosque in Deir al-Balah, and a citizen was also martyred and others were injured Following a drone bombing around Abu Sarar roundabout, west of Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
A number of citizens were injured in artillery shelling by the occupation forces around the Soussi Junction in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, while the occupation forces blew up homes in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
Journalist Hani Mahmoud reports on the tragic, forcible displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip, a result of the Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign in the region.
This arduous journey could mark a permanent, one-way displacement.
