{"id":121597,"date":"2025-09-17T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/thousands-of-palestinians-flee-as-israeli-troops-push-into-gaza-city\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:03:09","slug":"thousands-of-palestinians-flee-as-israeli-troops-push-into-gaza-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/thousands-of-palestinians-flee-as-israeli-troops-push-into-gaza-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Palestinians flee as Israeli troops push into Gaza City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY, Sept 17 \u2013 Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to flee Gaza City, as Israel\u2019s major ground offensive aimed at occupying the area enters a second day.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says its aim is to free hostages held by Hamas and defeat up to 3,000 fighters in what it describes as the group\u2019s \u201clast stronghold\u201d, but the offensive has drawn widespread international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of more than 20 major aid agencies, including Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that \u201cthe inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It comes a day after a UN commission of inquiry concluded that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0m4rxjppl8o\">Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an allegation the Israeli government strongly denied.<\/p>\n<p>Amid large-scale Israeli bombardment, Gaza\u2019s Hamas-run health ministry said al-Rantisi children\u2019s hospital in Gaza City was targeted in three separate Israeli attacks on Tuesday night, prompting around half its patients to leave.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the hospital said there were no injuries but that air conditioning units, water tanks and solar panels were severely damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hospital is the only specialist facility for children with cancer, kidney failure, and other life-threatening conditions,\u201d said Fikr Shalltoot, Gaza director of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY, Sept 17 \u2013 Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to flee Gaza City, as Israel\u2019s major ground offensive aimed at occupying the area enters a second day. Israel says its aim is to free hostages held by Hamas and defeat up to 3,000 fighters in what it describes as the group\u2019s \u201clast stronghold\u201d, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}