SHOTLIST:

GAZA, PALESTINE (SEPT. 16, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SHOTS)

1. VARIOUS OF DISPLACED PALESTINIANS MIGRATING WITH THEIR BELONGINGS BY VEHICLES OR ON FOOT / VEHICLES LADEN WITH MANY STUFF

2. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN SAIDE HADRA SAYING:

"I'm exhausted from the suffering — the car broke down five times since I left Sheikh Radwan at 9 until now. I'm suffering, I'm suffering… the situation is tragic. Look at the tragedy: there is an older woman who is very sick — diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease — she has every illness. For her to endure conditions like this is so hard. I don't even want to explain, especially at night or early in the morning. I haven't eaten since 9. I'm starving — I only drank water. There are no sanitary/health facilities along the way, and if I try to go now…

Our life, our living — we're going to die. We were driven out by fear and panic. I was in Sheikh Radwan, and I was displaced — for three weeks, I haven't slept, sleeping on a couch, sitting on a couch, sitting on a couch, and scared, feeling like I might have a stroke while I'm on the couch. This is our life, our living — may people have mercy on us, may they relieve our suffering, lift our hardships, lift all this worry for all the children. Look at the children: my son is five months — five or six months old — and another baby is one month old. They need (breast milk/food/comfort) — they need help to fix the car inside so we can go down/get out. This is our life, and how much more of the weapons/violence is there?"

3. VARIOUS OF DISPLACED PALESTINIANS MIGRATING WITH THEIR BELONGINGS BY VEHICLES OR ON FOOT / VEHICLES LADEN WITH MANY STUFF

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN MAN AHMED HADRA SAYING:

"We’ve been out since nine in the morning. As you can see, everyone is stuck, jammed up because of the crowding. So where are we supposed to go? You say the soldiers will open the way for us—where? Make space for people, where should they go? Where do we go?

The first time we left, they told us: Leave Gaza. We said okay. But now people say: it’s better to stay in Gaza than to go out like last time. A person goes out once—he goes out with his son, and when he gets there, he finds his grandfather dead, his uncle martyred, his cousin cut to pieces. So what do I do? I’m just one of the people. A week ago I went out to try to work, and I ended up lifting corpses. Standing in line, I find someone’s head. And I see my neighbors—his children dead, four of them gone. After 17 years, he loses his children. What is this? Madness. What is this?

We are choking—no food, no water, no shelter. We left, and I’m one of the people who drove us out. For what? What war is this? Gaza is all destroyed. Gaza isn’t Gaza anymore. It’s obliterated. Is it possible to cram three million people in a place like this? Where do we go? Where do people go? Have mercy on us—we don’t want anything. Don’t push us back, don’t starve us, don’t hit us, don’t kill us. Just let us be in the open, don’t use this method of displacement.

This displacement is worse than famine, worse than bombardment. I swear to God Almighty, just a little while ago I thought of going back home and dying there rather than stay stuck in this misery, in these crowds. These so-called ‘adjacent areas,’ I swear, are not safe. They say it’s a ‘humanitarian area’—but what does that mean? They bring you food, water, flour, and a couple of biscuits or chips. That’s not safety—humanitarian means food and drink, not that you won’t be bombed.

I swear to God Almighty, people are going mad. Everyone is displaced. It’s insanity. No one wants to die here; that’s why they leave Gaza. Out of those who leave, 70% die, 30% may survive. On the contrary, there is targeting—cars are hit, and even ambulances are bombed. There is no safe area in Gaza, not at all.
We leave only hoping, maybe, maybe, to save ourselves. But Gaza is not safe—not the neighborhoods, not the shore, not the sea, nothing. I’m telling you the truth: this is not life. A person cannot continue like this. From one hour to the next, it’s just survival.” GAZA, PALESTINE - SEPT. 16, 2025: As Israeli bombardment intensifies in northern Gaza, Palestinians continue to flee south in search of safety — many describing the trauma of displacement as even more devastating than the hunger and airstrikes they are trying to escape.

"This displacement is worse than famine, worse than bombardment. I swear to God Almighty, just a little while ago I thought of going back home and dying there rather than stay stuck in this misery, in these crowds," said a young Palestinian man Ahmed Hadra.

"These so-called ‘adjacent areas,’ I swear, are not safe. They say it’s a ‘humanitarian area’—but what does that mean? They bring you food, water, flour, and a couple of biscuits or chips. That’s not safety—humanitarian means food and drink, not that you won’t be bombed."

Palestinians continue to flee from northern to southern Gaza day and night, with families carrying their belongings on foot or in vehicles as bombardments persist—many describing the conditions of the journey as unbearable.

Saide Hadra, a Palestinian woman, told Anadolu that she and her family faced repeated car breakdowns, hunger, and exhaustion while attempting to leave the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

“Our life, our living — we’re going to die,” she said, adding that even infants and sick elderly are enduring dire circumstances without food, shelter, or medical facilities along the way.

More than 100 Palestinians were killed in renewed Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

The deadly attacks came as the Israeli army opened a new phase of its ground offensive in Gaza City as part of a broader strategy to reoccupy the entire city.

Nearly one million Palestinians, most of them displaced from other parts of the enclave, remain trapped in the city under relentless attacks.

The Israeli army has killed nearly 65,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023.

On Tuesday, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory confirmed that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

The commission’s report concluded that Israel committed four out of the five acts of genocide defined in the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

It explained that these acts are: killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.


Writing by Berkay Gur