Netanyahu tells Gaza City residents to leave as he pledges retaliation for Jerusalem attack Freddie ClaytonSeptember 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM 0 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned residents of faminestricken Gaza City to leave the area, promising to intensify military operations as Israel...
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Freddie ClaytonSeptember 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned residents of famine-stricken Gaza City to leave the area, promising to intensify military operations as Israel pushed forward with plans to occupy the city.
His latest threat came just hours after two gunmen opened fire at a Jerusalem bus stop Monday, killing six people and critically injuring seven others before police "neutralized" the shooters on the scene.
Hamas hailed the attack, the deadliest in Israel since October 2024, as "heroic." It did not claim responsibility for the shootings.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, right, at the scene of a shooting in Jerusalem on Monday. (Ronen Zvulun / AFP via Getty Images)
Netanyahu said the elimination of the gunmen or their supporters was "not enough."
"My directive is to strike hard against terror strongholds," he said after visiting the scene of the shooting with Israel's ultranationalist security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
"I promised you that we would take down Gaza's terror towers," he added, referring to multiple high-rise buildings destroyed by Israel in recent days, "and that is exactly what we are doing."
"You have been warned—leave!" Netanyahu said, addressing Gaza City's residents.
Images from Gaza Sunday showed thousands of leaflets dropped on Gaza City, urging people to evacuate south to the al-Mawasi "humanitarian zone," about 20 miles south. The Israeli military has struck areas deemed humanitarian zones, so few in the enclave consider them safe.
People watch as leaflets dropped by the Israeli military, urging evacuation south to al-Mawasi, land in Gaza City on Tuesday. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP via Getty Images)
Leaflets dropped by the Israeli military in Gaza City. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP via Getty Images)
Photos showed Palestinians jumping to catch the small bits of papers as they fell from the sky.
The assault on Gaza City — declared a "dangerous combat zone" by Israel — is expected to displace hundreds of thousands of people, most of them already uprooted multiple times during the war.
The IDF has been carrying out heavy strikes on the city for weeks, advancing through northern suburbs to within a few miles of its center.
It has destroyed multiple high-rise buildings, claiming that Hamas was operating from inside them, without providing evidence.
Jannah Mansour, 12, was living in a tent next to one of the high rises, and spent Monday looking for her clothes underneath the rubble.
She said she used to have beautiful dresses, but that now she feels like "walking garbage."
Nothing is left in life," she said. "We are finished.
Footage showed Palestinians running for safety last week after Israeli forces destroyed the Mushtaha high-rise tower in a densely populated part of the city.
The tower's management said in a statement after it was destroying saying the tower was being used for displaced people and denied it had been used for anything other than civilian purposes.
Aid groups warn the offensive could deepen the humanitarian catastrophe in the enclave, and it has already drawn international condemnation.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said the "attacks on residential towers in Gaza have displaced dozes of families," leaving many on the streets without shelter.
An Israeli military spokesman said Thursday that it now controls about 40% of the city, where about 1 million people lived prior to the war. The military controls about 75% of Gaza.
Israel launched its military campaign after the Hamas-led terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which saw 1,200 people killed and around 250 people taken hostage.
Since then, Palestinian health officials say, Israeli forces have killed more than 64,000 people in Gaza, including thousands of children, while driving most of the population from their homes and destroying or damaging most of its buildings and infrastructure.
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