Israel destroys 1,500 homes in Gaza City's neighborhood amid ground offensive
Iran Press TV
Thursday, 28 August 2025 11:26 AM
The Israeli military has demolished more than 1,500 homes in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City over the past three weeks, the Palestinian Civil Defense says.
The agency's spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal, speaking on Thursday, said the homes have been reduced to rubble since early this month, when the Tel Aviv regime approved its illegal plan to occupy Gaza City and launched a ground assault there.
The Israeli military has used construction machinery and bomb-laden robots to detonate seven sites daily in the al-Zeitoun district, where the occupation's quadcopters have dropped explosives on rooftops, he added.
Bassal also noted that the systematic demolition of Palestinian homes has left no buildings standing in the southern part of al-Zeitoun and forced 80 of the neighborhood's residents to flee to western or northern areas of Gaza City.
"The destruction is far greater than just the buildings in this neighborhood. Most of the infrastructure and residential areas, schools, mosques, waterways, and even pipelines and water networks have been severely damaged, which makes life and living here almost impossible," said Asem al-Nabih, a Gaza municipality spokesperson.
Nearly two years into the genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli security cabinet voted on August 8 for the Gaza City occupation scheme, which means more bloodshed and forcible displacement of exhausted and starving Palestinians.
It was initiated and pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the brutal Gaza onslaught that has killed at least 62,895 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 158,927 others since October 7, 2023.
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