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STORY: GAZA / GAZA CITY DISPLACED
TRT: 10:16
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
1. Various shots, hundreds of cars and trucks loaded with the belongings of displaced Palestinians moving from northern Gaza to the south via al-Rashid Street along the coast
2. Various shots, displaced people walking on foot, and others pulling small carts loaded with their belongings during their journey from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip
3. Various shots, an elderly couple from the Siam family during their displacement journey from northern Gaza to the south on foot
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Nader Siam, displaced resident travelling on foot:
“I am coming from Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City. By God, they did not leave a single house or neighborhood without bombing it. The shelling continues, and they dropped leaflets ordering us to evacuate. We have been walking for six hours because we couldn’t find a car or any means of transport. Up until now, it’s been six hours walking on our feet.”
5. Various shots, Siam couple taking a rest after more than six hours of walking
6. Various shots, displaced people crossing Wadi Gaza Bridge in central Gaza during their journey from the north to the south
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zakia Siam, displaced resident:
“Our house turned into rubble. We went to Shujaiya neighborhood, then we displaced to Sha‘f neighborhood in Gaza City before it was bombed. After that, we went to the seashore west of Gaza City and stayed there for two nights without tents for me and my husband. We sat on the sidewalk near the tents and sheltered beside one, then continued walking on foot.”
8. Various shots, displaced people pulling small carts loaded with their belongings along al-Rashid Street in western Gaza
9. Various shots, women and children resting in the shade away from the sun after walking on foot, waiting to reach central Gaza
10. Various shots, the heavy congestion on Wadi Gaza Bridge in central Gaza during the displacement of residents from the north
11. Various shots, dozens of residents forced to flee on foot from northern Gaza
12. Various shots, Umm Shadi al-Ashqar carrying a sack filled with her belongings while fleeing south on foot
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Shadi al-Ashqar, displaced resident:
“There (in Gaza City) it’s death, shelling, bombings, and destruction of homes. Why did we leave? If there were no bombardments, no one would have left. Even if they dropped leaflets, if there were no bombings, no one would have left Gaza City - they would have stayed in their homes. But there is death and devastation.”
14. Various shots, cars and trucks loaded with the belongings of displaced families from northern Gaza via al-Rashid Street along the coast
15. Various shots, children sitting inside a truck beside their belongings during their displacement journey to southern Gaza.
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayman al-Khatib, displaced resident:
“My entire family was killed in Tel al-Zaatar neighborhood in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. More than 25 members of my family were killed - my children, my wife, my mother, my brothers, and their wives. These are the ones left from my family: this is my nephew, this is my son, and this is another nephew, and this is my aunt. We fled under bombardment, and we couldn’t find transport. They asked us for 2,000 shekels, but we don’t have the money. We don’t have a tent or anything. I made many calls and appeals, but no one responds to me.”
17. Various shots, showing cars and trucks loaded with the belongings of displaced families from northern Gaza via al-Rashid Street along the coast
Hundreds of Palestinian families continued to flee Gaza City in the north of the enclave via the overcrowded coastal al-Rashid Street, amid a severe shortage of transportation and soaring travel costs, as Israeli military operations persist in the city.
Along the coastal road, trucks and cars loaded with belongings lined up, while others were forced to walk or push carts in a journey southward to the central and southern parts of the Strip. Residents said transport costs for a single family could reach as high as $3,000, a sum many cannot afford due to the loss of income sources.
Abu Nader Siam, an elderly man who fled on foot with his wife, said, “I am coming from Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City. By God, they did not leave a single house or neighborhood without bombing it. The shelling continues, and they dropped leaflets ordering us to evacuate. We have been walking for six hours because we couldn’t find a car or any means of transport. Up until now, it’s been six hours walking on our feet.”
His wife, Zakia, added, “Our house turned into rubble. We went to Shujaiya neighborhood, then we displaced to Sha‘f neighborhood in Gaza City before it was bombed. After that, we went to the seashore west of Gaza City and stayed there for two nights without tents for me and my husband. We sat on the sidewalk near the tents and sheltered beside one, then continued walking on foot.”
The damaged Wadi Gaza Bridge was jammed with dozens of broken-down vehicles, with no authority managing the traffic. Other displaced people complained about the lack of tents or sufficient space for shelter in the south.
Ayman al-Khatib, who fled from northern Gaza, said more than 25 members of his family were killed in an airstrike on Jabalia camp. “They asked us for 2,000 shekels, but we don’t have the money,” he said. “We don’t have a tent or anything.”
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that the average cost of displacement from Gaza to the south has reached $3,180, noting that fuel is scarce and shelter supplies have been barred from entering for seven months due to the Israeli blockade.
In recent weeks, the Israeli army has intensified its bombardment of high-rises and residential buildings in Gaza City. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the numbers of displaced are rising fast, with some 200,000 displacements recorded from northern to southern Gaza over the past month alone, including 56,000 since Sunday.
