UNRWA says 86% of Gaza under Israeli forced evacuation threat

At least 41 people killed since dawn in Gaza

GAZA: The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that Israel’s invasion of Gaza City is driving new massive waves of displacement, leaving more families with no safe place to seek refuge.
As of early September, the agency said 86 per cent of Gaza falls under a militarised zone or a forced displacement threats.
Palestinians “need a ceasefire before it is too late”, it said.
Meanwhile, at least 41 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera reports. At least 29 of those were killed in Gaza City.
Israeli forces have destroyed thousands of residential towers, buildings, tents: Gaza’s Government Media Office has released a statement in which it says Israeli forces have caused “the complete destruction of more than 1,600 multi-storey residential towers and buildings, the severe destruction of more than 2,000 residential towers and buildings, and the destruction of more than 13,000 tents housing displaced persons”, Al Jazeera reports.
Since the start of September, Israeli forces have “destroyed and demolished 70 residential towers and buildings, severely destroyed 120 residential towers and buildings, and more than 3,500 tents”, the statement read.
Palestinian factions hand over weapons from largest Lebanon refugee camp: official: Palestinian factions have begun handing over weapons from Lebanon’s largest refugee camp, AFP reports quoting a Palestinian official, as part of a push by the Lebanese government to disarm non-state groups.
Abdel Hadi al-Asadi, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the umbrella group conducted “the operation of delivering new batches of weapons”.
Five truckloads of weapons were handed over in the southern Ain al-Hilweh camp, the largest in the country, and three more from the northern Beddawi camp, he said. An AFP journalist in the area reported Lebanese army vehicles posted around the camp, preventing anyone from approaching.
The densely-populated Beddawi camp, near the northern city of Tripoli, was hit last year by Israeli strikes that killed a Hamas commander, his wife and two daughters, according to the Palestinian militant group.
Israeli army says ‘intensifying pace’ of Gaza City attacks, orders civilians to flee: The Israeli army has warned its forces are “increasing the pace of attacks” in Gaza City and issued more threats against Palestinians, warning them to flee south, Al Jazeera reports.

In a post on X, the army spokesperson claimed that more than 250,000 people have already fled the city and urged those remaining to take Al-Rashid Street towards Al-Mawasi or camps in the centre of the enclave.
“Despite intense bombardment in Gaza City, many residents have stayed put — or returned after seeking shelter elsewhere — because many of Israel’s designated evacuation zones are desperately overcrowded and under-resourced, including lacking proper water access,” reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud. Monitoring Desk