The agency explained in a statement that "the residents of Gaza City are now being subjected to ethnic cleansing, and the occupation has reached the level of blind madness in its bombing of schools housing displaced persons and residential buildings located in densely populated neighborhoods," noting that this has led to the martyrdom of dozens of civilians and the injury of hundreds more.
The statement stressed that the city is witnessing "widespread Israeli targeting and destruction of what remains of its residential buildings, with the aim of forcing citizens to leave, in implementation of the occupation's policy of emptying the city of its residents and pushing them towards what it calls the narrow humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip."
He added, "A state of extreme panic prevails among the displaced residents of Gaza City, given the lack of shelters that provide even the minimum requirements for security and safety."
At the conclusion of its statement, the Civil Defense called on countries, humanitarian organizations, and international organizations to "urgently intervene to stop the blind Israeli madness that is targeting civilians and their remaining facilities in Gaza."
Earlier on Saturday, the Government Media Office said that since August 11, the Israeli occupation army had completely destroyed 1,600 residential towers and buildings in Gaza City, and severely damaged nearly 2,000 residential towers and buildings, in addition to destroying 13,000 tents, displacing more than 100,000 people who had been living in those homes and tents.
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On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City. On August 11, the Israeli army launched an attack on the city, starting with the Zeitoun neighborhood (southeast). The attack included the demolition of homes using booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, indiscriminate gunfire, and forced displacement.
Over the following weeks, the occupation forces expanded their air operations and policy of destroying residential neighborhoods to the Sabra neighborhood in the south, then to the northern neighborhoods of the city and later to the western ones.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
This genocide left 64,803 Palestinians dead, 164,264 wounded, most of them children and women, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of 420 Palestinians, including 145 children, as of Saturday.
