Anadolu staff
22 September 2025•Update: 22 September 2025
Gaza City, Palestine/ISTANBUL
The Israeli army killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded others in attacks across the Gaza Strip on Monday, renewing warnings for residents to evacuate Gaza City and move south, witnesses and medical sources told Anadolu.
Seven Palestinians were killed and around 60 others were injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the al-Samer area of central Gaza City.
Civil defense teams also retrieved the bodies of two people from under the rubble of a building struck by Israeli jets in the same area.
A Palestinian man and his son were also killed by Israeli army fire in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
In the western part of the city, two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on the Shati refugee camp, while a third was killed in a strike on a family home near al-Shifa Tower.
In southwestern Gaza City, two Palestinians were killed when a drone opened fire on a civilian gathering in Tel al-Hawa.
Another strike hit an inhabited home in al-Sabra neighborhood, killing and injuring several people.
West of the city, intense bombardment targeted areas north of Al-Quds Open University. No information was yet available about injuries.
In the city's east, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire. The body was transported to the Baptist Hospital.
Six more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on various neighborhoods of the city.
In the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of the city, six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack in the Al-Sidra area.
Leaflets were dropped over al-Wehda Street and near the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, demanding immediate evacuation southward.
Overnight, Israeli drones carried out demolition blasts in northwestern neighborhoods, while quadcopter drones hovered low and fired at homes in Tel al-Hawa and other districts.
Israel approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip in August, beginning with Gaza City, home to about 1 million people.
In central Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli fire struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the al-Sawarkeh area near al-Nuseirat camp.
A child was killed when a civilian vehicle was hit in al-Farouq neighborhood, near the town of al-Zawaida.
A Palestinian was also killed in Israeli shelling of areas in the central Gaza Strip, though details about the exact location of the attack were not available.
Meanwhile, the army killed another Palestinian in a strike targeting a gathering of civilians in al-Zawaida area in central Gaza.
In southern Gaza, medical sources said a Palestinian died of wounds sustained in a previous Israeli attack.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed over 65,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
The onslaught has displaced hundreds of thousands alongside a blockade on humanitarian aid that has led to famine and claimed the lives of at least 442 Palestinians, including 147 children.
