• Israeli forces destroy 30 more residential buildings
• 48 Palestinians killed
• Netanyahu calls Rubio ‘Extraordinary Friend’, says his visit shows the strength of the US ties.
Jerusalem: Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 more residential buildings in the city of Gaza and displaced thousands of residents, according to Palestinian officials, when the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, arrived in the region on Sunday to hold conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At least 48 more Palestinians were killed since Sunday Dawn as artillery bombings and shots by the Israeli forces reported in the city of Gaza, as well as the bombings of the ships, according to Al Jazeera.
Israel has already announced its plan to seize the city, where more than one million Palestinians have been taking refuge, and has intensified attacks on what has called the last bastion of Hamas.
The Israeli army issued a new forced evacuation order for another building in the city of Gaza.
The army “will attack the building soon” due to the presence of Hamas infrastructure inside or adjacent to it, read a statement in X.
Israeli soldiers have been leveling one for a large building in the city of the North since they began a great offensive to occupy it.
Two more Palestinians died of malnutrition and hunger in Gaza in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health of the territory on Sunday, resulting for such causes to at least 422 people, including 145 children.
Israel prevented all food from entering Gaza for many months, before allowing enclave helping despite the famine declared by the United Nations, which warned that much more was needed.
It is estimated that thousands of people left the city of Gaza, but mostly the Palestinians are reluctant to leave, saying that there is not enough space or security in the south, where Israel had asked them to be after designating it as a “humanitarian zone.” People say that Israel has repeatedly hit the so -called humanitarian areas.
In a publication about X, Unrwa says that Israel’s bombardment in Gaza City has been “constant” on Sunday, adding that “there is no safe place” in the besieged enclave.
Many Palestinians say that they cannot afford to leave, while others have set hopes at the Doha Summit to pressure Israel to discard their planned offensive.
14,000 buildings, shelters destroyed in a month
Hamas said that Israeli forces have destroyed at least 1,600 residential buildings and 13,000 tents since August 11.
In one of the last strikes, the Israeli forces assaulted the Al-Khader Girls elementary school in the old city of Jerusalem and assaulted the mayor, Ahmad Salah, head of the Parent Council and a member of the municipality, Issam Naim, reports the Wafa news agency.
Mahmoud Abdullah, head of the Parent Council of the Unified Schools of Al-Khader, said the Israeli forces assaulted primary school when the students were leaving.
Abdullah added that the soldiers hit him, Salah and Naim with the rifle faults and his hands, causing bruises. He added that the troops threatened to “close the seven schools.”
The school complex has been repeatedly attacked by the Israeli forces that are directed to female and male students.
At least 64,871 people have been killed and 164,610 wounds in Israeli attacks against Gaza, while millions have been displaced since October 2023.
Posted in Dawn, September 15, 2025
