PALESTINE

Thu 18 Sep 2025 7:35 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation tanks invade the heart of Gaza City, besieging 900,000 Palestinians with no refuge.

Completely besieged: Occupation tanks reach the city center amid intense shelling in a serious and horrifying escalation of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. Occupation forces' vehicles and bulldozers advanced into the heart of Gaza City early Thursday, imposing a deadly siege on approximately 900,000 people who have become completely trapped with no safe haven.

These developments come amid the heaviest air and artillery bombardment since the onset of the aggression, turning the city into an open death zone, where residents face two bitter choices: death under bombardment or displacement into the unknown.

Eyewitnesses and field sources reported that occupation tanks were seen advancing on main streets in Gaza City, including around the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and other vital areas, effectively cutting off the city almost entirely and reinforcing the siege imposed on its northern neighborhoods.

Humanitarian organizations describe the situation inside Gaza City and its north as 'catastrophic' and 'indescribable.' With the arrival of tanks in the city center, nearly 900,000 Palestinians are completely trapped, facing death at every moment.

The situation is worsening with a complete collapse of the healthcare system, and a near-total depletion of water, food, and fuel, threatening the spread of epidemics and mass fatalities due to hunger, thirst, and disease.

Paramedics and local journalists have issued urgent distress calls, confirming that ambulance and civil defense crews are completely unable to reach hundreds of martyrs and wounded lying in the streets or under the rubble of homes destroyed by the bombardment.

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Occupation tanks invade the heart of Gaza City, besieging 900,000 Palestinians with no refuge.

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