{"id":124229,"date":"2025-09-16T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124229"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:57:20","slug":"16-00-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124229","title":{"rendered":"Israel Intensifies Gaza City Bombing as Rubio Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2025\/09\/14\/israel-intensifies-gaza-city-bombing-as-rubio-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israel Intensifies Gaza City Bombing as Rubio Arrives<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reuters and Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/t2025-09-14T112741Z_1_LYNXNPEL8D047_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip September 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Mahmoud Issa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 residential buildings in Gaza City and forced thousands of people from their homes, Palestinian officials said, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Sunday to discuss the future of the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel has said it plans to seize the city, where about a million Palestinians have been sheltering, as part of its declared aim of eliminating the terrorist group Hamas, and has intensified attacks on what it has called Hamas\u2019 last bastion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The group\u2019s political leadership, which has engaged in on-and-off negotiations on a possible ceasefire and hostage release deal, was targeted by Israel in an airstrike in Doha on Tuesday in an attack that drew widespread condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Qatar will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit on Monday to discuss the next moves. Rubio said Washington wanted to talk about how to free the 48 hostages \u2013 of whom 20 are believed to be still alive \u2013 still held by Hamas in Gaza and rebuild the coastal strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s happened, has happened,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna meet with them (the Israeli leadership). We\u2019re gonna talk about what the future holds,\u201d Rubio said before heading to Israel where he will stay until Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ABRAHAM ACCORDS AT RISK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He was expected to visit the Western Wall Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hold talks with him during the visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">US officials described Tuesday\u2019s strike on the territory of a close US ally as a unilateral escalation that did not serve American or Israeli interests. Rubio and US President Donald Trump both met Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Netanyahu signed an agreement on Thursday to push ahead with a settlement expansion plan that would cut across West Bank land that the Palestinians seek for a state \u2013 a move the United Arab Emirates warned would undermine the US-brokered Abraham accords that normalized UAE relations with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel, which blocked all food from entering Gaza for 11 weeks earlier this year, has been allowing more aid into the enclave since late July to prevent further food shortages, though the United Nations says far more is needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It says it wants civilians to leave Gaza City before it sends more ground forces in. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have left but hundreds of thousands remain in the area. Hamas has called on people not to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli army forces have been operating inside at least four eastern suburbs for weeks, turning most of at least three of them into wastelands. It is closing in on the center and the western areas of the territory, where most of the displaced people are taking shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Many are reluctant to leave, saying there is not enough space or safety in the south, where Israel has told them to go to what it has designated as a humanitarian zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Some say they cannot afford to leave while others say they were hoping the Arab leaders meeting on Monday in Qatar would pressure Israel to scrap its planned offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe bombardment intensified everywhere and we took down the tents, more than twenty families, we do not know where to go,\u201d said Musbah Al-Kafarna, displaced in Gaza City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel said it had completed five waves of air strikes on Gaza City over the past week, targeting more than 500 sites, including Hamas reconnaissance and sniper sites, buildings containing tunnel openings and weapons depots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Local officials, who do not distinguish between militant and civilian casualties, say at least 40 people were killed by Israeli fire across the enclave, a least 28 in Gaza City alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Intensifies Gaza City Bombing as Rubio Arrives Reuters and Algemeiner Staff Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip September 14, 2025. 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