Palestinians walk past a destroyed building after an Israeli strike on Al-Nassr Street in Gaza City on September 12, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Israeli military operations killed 50 people in Gaza on Friday, the territory’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says, as the army stepped up its attacks on Gaza City.
The civil defense agency says 35 people were killed in the city on Friday, along with another 15 in other parts of the territory.
The Israeli military says it is continuing “its wide-scale strikes on terrorist infrastructure and high-rise structures” in Gaza City.
This picture shows an Israeli projectile targeting a building on Jalaa Street in Gaza City on September 12, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas mean international news agencies are unable to independently verify the details provided by the civil defense agency or the Israeli military.
A single strike in the northwest of Gaza City killed 14 people, the civil defense said.
“The majority of them are children and women,” relative Hazem al Sultan tells AFP. “Only two bodies were intact, while the rest were body parts.”
Children sit atop piled up mattresses as Palestinians flee south from Gaza City with their belongings, via the coastal road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
At the city’s Al-Shifa hospital, mourners pray over the dead wrapped in white shrouds, some of them the size of children.
The military did not respond to a request for comment on the strike.
While the army has issued multiple evacuation warnings for Gaza City, many residents have told AFP they have nowhere else to go, noting Israel has repeatedly struck the area in the south to which it has urged people to move.
A woman pushes the wheelchair of an elderly person as Palestinians flee south from Gaza City via the coastal road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
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