cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36029019
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Sep 11, 2025GAZA CITY—Palestinians in Gaza City are facing the full brunt of Israel’s military campaign to ethnically cleanse the entire city, once the largest in historic Palestine, with nowhere to go.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military extolled its escalating assault on Gaza City, with a spokesperson saying dozens of Israeli warplanes hit over 360 targets in the city, including high-rise buildings and infrastructure. “The first wave focused on the Daraj and Tuffah [neighborhoods]…the second and third waves included a large-scale attack on the Daraj, Tuffah, and Furqan areas,” the spokesperson posted on X. “In the coming days, the army will intensify the pace of attacks… in preparation for the next phases of the operation.” In addition to residential buildings and infrastructure, crowded tent encampments have also been destroyed.
Since the Israeli military launched its offensive to seize and take control of Gaza City last month, it has issued multiple displacement orders for different neighborhoods in the area, culminating in a mass expulsion order on Monday for the entire city of nearly 1 million Palestinians.
one of these days, the world will look at this in the same way that they look at other similar episodes of forced displacement of natives of all lands and simply shrug like they already do for the native americans in the united states; the first nations in canada; or the aboriginals in australia.
i think it’s telling that the same hegemony that perpetrated those last episodes is doing it again to the gazans and it all goes to prove how good they’ve gotten at getting us to collectively sit back and let it happen with too few of us to make any lasting impact.
