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‘Why Are You Bombing US…?’

CrossFireArabia
September 15, 2025

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.

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Here’s what Gaza City residents are saying from the ground, their fears, resistance, and the reality they face as their city is being wipe out by Israel:

“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!

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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.”

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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,” according to the Quds News Network.

News

World Ships Sail to Break Gaza Siege

CrossFireArabia
September 15, 2025

Sixteen ships set sail from Tunisian ports as part of the Global Sumud Fleet for Gaza, a large-scale international flotilla of civilian boats aiming to break Israel’s blockade on the territory and deliver humanitarian aid.

Khaled Boujemaa, a member of the Maghreb contingent of the Global Sumud Flotilla, told Anadolu that 11 of the ships departed from Bizerte Port in northern Tunisia from Saturday evening until late Sunday.

Three ships set sail from Gammarth Port in the capital, as two others left Sidi Bou Said Port near Tunis, Boujemaa said.

On Sunday, spokesperson Ghassan al-Hanshiri also told Anadolu that two ships left from Gammarth Port toward Gaza and “a third Tunisian ship was preparing to depart shortly,” noting that “a total of eight Tunisian ships are currently docked at Gammarth.”

He pointed out that other ships remain in Sidi Bou Said Port, while vessels from Italy and Spain have already departed, and all will meet in the Mediterranean on their way to Gaza.

On Saturday, the very first vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla departed Tunisia’s Bizerte Port, in addition to 18 boats from Sicily’s Augusta Port, toward Gaza.

According to an Anadolu correspondent and flotilla spokesperson, the flotilla includes dozens of ships and hundreds of participants from 47 Arab and Western countries, among them prominent politicians, artists, and parliamentarians.

The initiative began last month, with ships departing from Barcelona, Spain, and Genoa, Italy. Over the past week, European boats arrived in Tunisian waters to join their Maghreb counterparts before continuing toward Gaza. Organizers described the mission as unprecedented, contrasting it with previous attempts involving single boats that were intercepted by Israel and their passengers deported.

This convoy is the largest of its kind, aiming to challenge the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, where famine conditions have taken hold under Israel’s months-long closure of all crossings.

The Israeli army has killed nearly 65,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave uninhabitable and led to starvation and the spread of diseases.

Culture

Emmy Awards: Artists Call For ‘Free Palestine’

CrossFireArabia
September 15, 2025

Several artists used their appearances to call for “Free Palestine,” wearing a keffiyeh and handbag, saying “CEASE FIRE!” during Sunday night’s 77th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.

“Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder won her first Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series and closed off her acceptance speech by saying: “Go Birds, F— ICE and Free Palestine.”

She later went on to explain her statement while getting her name chiseled on the trophy backstage.

“It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture … is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state,” she said as reported in Anadolu.

Javier Bardem, wearing a keffiyeh and voicing his support for Film Workers for Palestine, announced on the red carpet entrance: “Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza… Free Palestine!”

In the week leading up to the Emmys, 3,900 industry names signed an open pledge declaring that they will not work with Israeli institutions and film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The pledge statement, published on Monday by the organization Film Workers for Palestine, said that examples of complicity include “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

The pledge states that examples of complicity include “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them,” according to Variety.

“What we are witnessing is a genocide. And as I said in your show, in 4k alive on a daily basis, this has to stop,” Bardem said during an interview.

He continued by stating that he won’t and cannot work with those who “justify or support the genocide.”

“I can’t. That’s as simple as that. And we shouldn’t be able to do that in this industry and in any other industry. Today in Madrid, in Spain, the cycle, the bicycle tour, it was stopped by thousands and thousands and thousands of people on the streets marching saying we can’t allow the team of Israel being in this tour,” Bardem said.

Megan Stalter of “Hacks” also posed on the red carpet holding a handbag that wrote “CEASE FIRE!” on a white background and bold characters.

News

Israel Destroys 10 UNRWA Buildings in 4 Days

CrossFireArabia
September 15, 2025

Israeli strikes destroyed 10 of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees’ (UNRWA) buildings in Gaza City over the past four days, including seven schools and two clinics serving as shelters for thousands of displaced Palestinians, the agency’s commissioner-general said Sunday.

“No place is safe in Gaza. No one is safe. Airstrikes in Gaza City and the north are intensifying. More and more people are forced to leave, disoriented and uncertain, heading into the unknown,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote on the US social media company X’s platform according to Anadolu.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini: “No place is safe in Gaza. No one is safe.”
He said Israeli airstrikes are intensifying as families flee “into the unknown.”
In four days, 10 UNRWA buildings — including schools and clinics sheltering thousands — were targeted. pic.twitter.com/zkTPThKe86
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Lazzarini noted that UNRWA was forced to suspend health care at the Al-Shati refugee camp.

“We were forced to stop health care in Beach (Al-Shati) Camp, the only health care available north of Wadi Gaza. Our vital water and sanitation services are now only at half capacity,” he said.

“Our teams – 11,000 in total – continue to provide critical services in other parts of northern Gaza and the rest of the Gaza Strip,” he added, praising their determination to serve communities under “inhumane circumstances.”

Lazzarini concluded by saying: “How much longer until action is taken to reach a ceasefire?”

The Israeli army has been targeting high-rise buildings across Gaza City as part of its ongoing offensive to occupy Gaza City, ordering residents to move southward to a “safe humanitarian zone” in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, which has come under Israeli fire more than 100 times, killing hundreds of civilians.

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the Israeli army has destroyed 1,600 towers and residential buildings in Gaza City since Aug. 11, in addition to 13,000 tents, displacing more than 100,000 Palestinians.

The vast majority of Gaza City’s residents are now crowded into its western neighborhoods, which have witnessed concentrated and intense Israeli bombing since Friday.

Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has killed nearly 65,000 Palestinians since October 2023 and devastated the enclave, which faces famine.

Israel is facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its war on the territory.

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…Historical Chance For Arabs…

CrossFireArabia
September 15, 2025

Ahmad Mansour of Al Jazeera writes:

“After Israel’s biggest crime Against Qatar, this is a historical opportunity in front of the Arab countries to unite in order to exist. If they don’t do that the greater Israel project which [Benjamin] Netanyahu outlined will become a reality. And then regret will be of no use…”