Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel mobilized tens of thousands of reserves on Tuesday and began repeated evacuation warnings. Attacks in Gaza Citywhich sparked opposition domestically and criticism abroad.
The call-up announced last month The ground and air forces push forward, pursuing more targets in northern and central Gaza, allowing them to hit some of Zeitoun and Shijaiyah. Almost two years of war Against the militants in Hamas.
Israeli soldiers will travel to the Armored Craftsman Career (APC) near the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
Zeitoun, once the city of Gaza’s largest neighbourhood with markets, schools and clinics, had streets empty and buildings turned tiled rubs as Israeli troops became “tiled rubs” last week. Dangerous Combat Zone. ”
Gaza City is Hamas’ political and military hub, and, according to Israel, there is still a vast network of tunnels that exist despite the number of invasions during the war. It is also one of the last shelters in northern Gaza, with hundreds of thousands of civilians being evacuated and facing the threat of fighting and hunger twins.
Preventers protested the call in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, questioning whether the attack was a political move and whether Israel is heading towards the goal of crippling Hamas’ military capabilities in Gaza.
Fatal strike in Gaza city
Israel repeated its previous warnings to the remaining Palestinians in Gaza city on Tuesday, not convinced that another displacement would keep them safe.
Israeli military spokesman Avichey Adrie warned that combat operations would soon expand, and services would be available at Mwasi, a makeshift tent camp south of Gaza city.
At least 47 people have been killed throughout the Gaza Strip since dawn Tuesday, according to the hospital.
In Gaza city, Israeli strikes have killed at least 26 people and arrived at Shifa Hospital from Tuesday morning, officials told The Associated Press.
The strike at Tel Al Hawa’s home construction injured 28 people on Tuesday, according to Al-Quds Hospital.
Overnight, 15 people died in a strike in a nearby residential building. In the AP footage, rescuers pulled a living bloody infant from under the tile rub and then placed the dead under a white sheet. This is a scene that captures the dangers facing the tired residents of Gaza, and has been uprooted many times, and it is uncertain whether it is safe somewhere.
“We were safe and asleep at home, then suddenly we woke up to the sound of smoke rising and the smoke rising,” Sana Dorimli, a woman who lived in the building with her family, told the Associated Press. “We woke up, saw what happened to us, checked in with the kids and discovered that everyone around us was dead.”
The morgue at Shifa Hospital confirmed 15 deaths from the Israeli strike.
Further south, Nasser Hospital in Khan Eunis and AWDA Hospital in Nusea Rat said they received corridors frequently visited by UN convoys following the 22 casualties killed by Israeli airstrikes and shootings near distribution sites.
Over 2,300 people seeking assistance have been killed in recent months, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Tolls include Palestinians who sought help in areas where UN convoys were overwhelmed by looters and desperate crowds and were fatally shot while heading to a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation or the Israeli-backed American contractor GHF.
The Israeli military and the GHF did not immediately answer questions about the latest incident.
Preventives protest in Tel Aviv
Israeli forces said last month that at least 60,000 reserves will be gradually called in. It will also expand the services of the additional 20,000 reserves already offering services.
In Israel, with a population of less than 10 million, most Jewish men complete mandatory military service and maintain reserves for at least 10 years. However, criticism of the war in Gaza has been growing. Many moves have been sorted out to encourage reserves not to provide services, but the number of people who will reject the latest calls is unknown.
Refusing to appear for preparation duties is a crime worthy of prison time, but only a few reserves who refused to be placed in military prisons during the course of the war were placed in military prisons.
Malnutrition and combat fees are mounted
Since the world’s leading authority on food crisis was declared last month Gaza city was experiencing hungermalnutrition-related deaths are on the rise. Gaza’s health ministry said Tuesday that a total of 185 people died of malnutrition in August.
A total of 63,633 Palestinians were killed in the war, according to the province. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants by their numbers, but it says women and children account for half of the deaths.
Evacuated Palestinians fleeing the North Gaza Strip along the sea route of Gaza city on Monday, September 1, 2025 (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government, but is staffed with medical professionals. United Nations agencies and many independent experts consider the figures to be the most reliable estimate of the casualties of war. Israel challenges them, but does not offer its own sacrifice.
The war was led by Hamas-led extremists attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians. We took 251 hostages. The 48 hostages were still in Gaza, with about 20 of them believing that Israel was alive.
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Sam Metz reported from Jerusalem. Fatma Khaled of Cairo and Melanie Ridman of Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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