‘This Is the Last Call’: What Gaza City Residents Say About Israel’s Relentless Bombardment and Forced Displacement

As Israel intensifies its assault on Gaza City, residents describe relentless bombardment, mass forced displacement, in what they see as an Israeli attempt to wipe out and occupy the city.

Israeli forces have stepped up their assault on Gaza City with a sustained wave of heavy airstrikes, relying on extensive aerial bombardment that has reduced entire neighborhoods, residential buildings, and shelters to rubble.

“This is the last call. Gaza City is being wiped out,” residents share in social media stories using a widely circulated template.

Mira Abu Amer: “We’re sitting here, hearing the Israeli bombs as they destroy the city, block by block.”

Shadi Jabr: “What’s happening is beyond what we can bear, they’ve destroyed Gaza.”

Eman: “People flee from death to death. We are dying in every possible way. May God’s curse be upon this unjust world. For two years of Israeli genocide, we have raised our voices, but no one listens.”

Mona Hasan: “What’s happening in Gaza right now is horrible, relentless shelling and continuous fire belts with no end in sight!”

Aya abo Taqiya: “The situation is tragic. We are literally in the middle of the fire, and even now we’re still asking ourselves: ‘But where can we go?’ Staying where we are now is suicide, a death trap. Displacement to the south means exhaustion, a slow drain, a solitary cell.”

Ahmed Hindi:“I swear to you, we are living through the horrors of the Day of Judgment. What we’re enduring is beyond imagination, no human on this earth could bear it. Save whoever’s left of us… we are dying.”

Journalist Hind Khoudary: “I swear to God, people are lying in the streets with nowhere to go… Some don’t have anything with them at all, completely helpless.”

Karam Naji:“Mass displacement and overwhelming crowds, long hours of walking under relentless bombardment, with exhaustion wearing people down in their desperate search for safety.”

Photographer Mahmoud Hamda: “It is a state of profound despair that people have never experienced before.”