Israel urges residents of Gaza City to evacuate
Newshour
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🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Israel's military has urged all residents of Gaza City to evacuate to what it calls a humanitarian zone in the south, as it expands its military operation in the territory. For a second day running it's struck and destroyed a high-rise block in the territory's largest urban area. Israel says the tower was being used by Hamas. The militants deny this.
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(Photo: Smoke and dust fill the air following an Israeli airstrike on the Mushtaha Tower in the west of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 05 September 2025. Credit: EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. I'm Krupa-Barty and it's very good to |
| 0:09.7 | have you with us. We start in Gaza from where we're hearing of chaotic scenes in Gaza City after |
| 0:15.5 | Israel issued another evacuation order. This time, Palestinians are being told to move south with the warning that |
| 0:22.0 | the military was operating throughout the city. We're hearing of countless residential towers |
| 0:27.1 | in the heart of the city being flattened with families gathering in the streets questioning |
| 0:31.4 | whether they should stay or go. These Palestinians witnessed Israeli strikes on their homes in Gaza |
| 0:37.2 | city. These Palestinians witnessed Israeli strikes on their homes in Gaza City. |
| 0:40.3 | The bombing happened while we were in the street. |
| 0:43.9 | We couldn't evacuate our belongings, including the few basic items we use. |
| 0:48.2 | We left with nothing. |
| 0:49.8 | And now, we're out in the open without any possessions or personal items. |
| 0:56.0 | The attacks against us have intensified, especially targeting tower blocks and apartment buildings today. |
| 1:08.2 | Just a short while ago, they bombed the M Mushhtaha Tower, which is one of the tallest. |
| 1:13.8 | Around us, more buildings are also under threat of being bombed. The strikes are definitely |
| 1:18.7 | focused on tower blocks and residential buildings. Israeli forces have been carrying out and |
| 1:25.8 | offensive in the suburbs of the city for weeks now after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the city was a Hamas stronghold. |
| 1:34.2 | Let's speak now to our correspondent in Jerusalem, Wiria Davis. |
| 1:37.5 | We're good to have you with us. We're hearing about these attacks on residential buildings. |
| 1:41.3 | How do you understand the latest on those strikes in and around Gaza City? |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, well, as you say, the background of this is Israel's increased, intensified military offensive, |
| 1:54.6 | particularly in Gaza City. Benjamin Netanyahu has made it quite clear. He intends to overrun and |
| 2:00.3 | control Gaza City because he says that is the only way that Hamas will be defeated and Israeli hostages released. |
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