The neighborhood of Shuja’iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased.
Israel bombed three schools-turned-shelters, intensifying attacks across Gaza City and ordering residents to evacuate. Eyewitnesses report that the Israeli army is sending booby-trapped vehicles into neighborhoods and detonating them remotely.
Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza are finding nothing but piles of rubble. But residents who spoke to Mondoweiss said they would not trade it for Donald Trump’s plan to resettle them outside Palestine.
This week the official death toll in Gaza from Israel’s brutal war reached 40,000. The…
In a testimony obtained by Mondoweiss, a resident of Shuja’iyya recounts his motivations for wanting to join Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades to fight against the Israeli army.
Israel ordered Gaza City residents to leave as Shuja’iyya has become “uninhabitable.” Meanwhile, ceasefire talks are set to continue in Egypt as Netanyahu is accused of sabotaging a potential deal.
The Israeli army is besieging Gaza City a week after its Shuja’iyya invasion began. People are forced to sleep in the streets with nowhere left to go and residents say Israeli forces are encountering fierce resistance.
Israel has been forced into a war of attrition as the Palestinian resistance has reconstituted itself across Gaza. The scale of the horrors perpetrated by the Israeli army in these battles only emerges through testimonies after the fighting ends.