On Saturday, September 20th, 2025, day 715 of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless assault on Gaza City, which has been ongoing for over a week using aerial bombardment, drone strikes, artillery shelling and ground troops in Gaza’s largest and most populous city.
Before noon on Saturday, Israeli forces killed at least 51 Palestinians in a number of different attacks, including 38 killed in Gaza City
Medical sources reported that the number of Palestinians killed from the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Al-Jamla family home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City had risen to nine citizens, the majority of whom were children.
Update: At least six Palestinians were killed and many injured when the army shelled the Al-Mashahra area in the Tuffah neighborhood, in the eastern part of Gaza city.
Medical sources reported that four citizens were killed and others were injured in an Israeli occupation raid on a house of the “Al-Jamla” family near Shawa Square in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Five citizens, including two girls, were killed in a raid that targeted the home of the brother of the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, in Al-Shati camp.
Dr. Abu Salmiya bids farewell to his brother, nieces and nephews, who were killed in the Israeli attack on Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza.
Palestinian doctor Moatasem Mustafa Abdelhamid Ayad has died from severe burns after the Israeli army targeted his home in Tel al-Hawa, west of Gaza City.
Two Palestinian children were killed and others injured after Israeli aircraft bombed Al-Mu’tasim School, which was sheltering displaced families in Gaza City.
In the central Gaza Strip, a citizen was killed and ten others were injured in a raid targeting citizens east of the Nuseirat camp.
A citizen was also killed and others waiting for aid were injured, as a result of the occupation forces opening fire near the aid center north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The sources added that a female citizen was killed and others were injured in an occupation drone strike on the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Al-Awda Hospital reported that a citizen was killed and others were injured, after the Israeli occupation army opened fire on aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip.
The Red Crescent Society said that 14 citizens were injured by Israeli occupation fire in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in Tal Al-Hawa in Gaza City.
Multiple Palestinians were reported wounded in an Israeli drone strike that bombed a group of displaced civilians near a supermarket in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.
One person was reported killed and others wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a group of civilians behind the Jordanian field hospital south of Gaza City.
Israeli occupation aircraft bombed near the electricity company in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli aircraft launched multiple airstrikes on Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
Since the early hours of Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation army has continued its bombing and violent raids on numerous areas of Gaza City, leaving numerous killed and injured, including displaced people and aid seekers.
The Israeli occupation army also announced a closure of Salah El Din Street, which is a main artery from central to southern Gaza. This means that the hundreds of thousands of people who have been forcibly displaced by the ongoing bombing of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip are left with only the coastal Rashid Street to travel on.
An armored vehicle loaded with explosives was set up to explode in Al-Nafaq Street in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. The vehicle is visible behind the pillars of the shop in this video:
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has reported that the Israeli army detonated approximately 120 explosive-laden vehicles in residential neighborhoods of Gaza City over the past week.
Euro-Med said this amounts to an average of 17 car bomb equivalents per day, and emphasized the scale and intensity of the destruction, noting that these operations have caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure and raised serious concerns about proportionality and the protection of non-combatants under international law.
Reporter Mo’tasem Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) posted this photo today of a man pushing the body of his son in a wheelbarrow, after the child was killed by the Israeli occupation military in Gaza.
A mother from Gaza speaks of her son, Yazan:
He was meant to sit today as the head of the “Arab Child Parliament” under UNICEF’s supervision, somewhere in Europe.
Yazan was the hero of a documentary after the 2018 war—scheduled to be screened in Jordan, until it was banned.
He loved Marvel characters, tracing their timelines and stories with passion. He loved musical arrangement—he fell in love with the arrangement of “Law Marra Bas.” When I wondered why, he told me it was not about reality, but about the music itself. He adored strings, but disliked remixes, believing they weakened the soul of the melody.
Once I told him, “Why not learn a string instrument?”
He smiled and said: “I was made to listen, not to play.”
At six, Yazan learned the first stitches of Palestinian embroidery, adding a small piece to the great tapestry of The Palestinian Wedding. He loved the scents of food, was a fine taster, always eager to invent a new flavor.
Yazan was always a step apart from everyone, yet closer than anyone—living in the heart.
Today, Yazan crossed the gates of loss and the unknown. Today, he washed himself clean from the smoke of the city and became eternal in his skin, in his memories, in the light of his eyes. Today, Yazan leaves behind only question marks.
I don’t write this to reduce him to admiration or an emoji.
I write only to say: Forgive me, Yazan.
Forgive me, my son. Forgive me, Baba…
