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Israel continues heavy attacks on central and southern Gaza despite telling Palestinians in Gaza City to flee there

by Dave DeCamp, Antiwar. com, September 24, 2025 at 1:25 pm ET | Gaza, Israel

Israeli strikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip killed at least 84 Palestinians on Wednesday, medical sources told the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The IDF continues its assault on Gaza City, where it aims to forcibly displace the entire civilian population and raze every building to the ground, but it also continues to launch attacks in central and southern Gaza despite telling the Palestinians in Gaza City to head south.

Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli strike hit a stadium in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza that has been turned into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, killing 12 people, including seven women and two children.
Palestinians injured and killed in an Israeli attack on Nuseirat while waiting to receive humanitarian aid are brought to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp, Gaza, on September 24, 2025 (IMAGO/APAimages via Reuters Connect)

“Despite these endless evacuation orders from Israeli forces telling Palestinians to leave Gaza City for the central and southern areas of the Strip, they are still being targeted wherever they go,” said Al Jazeera reporter Hind Khoudary.

WAFA reported that three Palestinians were killed while waiting for humanitarian aid northwest of Rafah, southern Gaza. Among the three killed was Mohammed al-Satari, a 36-year-old soccer player who previously played for the Shabab Rafah Sports Club.

In Gaza City, medics told Reuters that 20 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on a shelter housing displaced people near a market in the center of the city.

“We were sleeping in God’s care, there was nothing – they did not inform us, or not even give us a sign – it was a surprise,” Sami Hajjaj, a survivor of the attack, told Reuters. “There are children and women, around 200 people maybe, six-seven families, this square is full of families.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, which it releases about midday Gaza time, that it recorded the deaths of 33 Palestinians and the recovery of four bodies of Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks. The ministry said that its violent death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 65,419, and the number of wounded has climbed to 167,160. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are likely a significant undercount.