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Photos: Palestinians flee Israel’s fierce bombardment of Gaza City
More Palestinian families are fleeing as the Israeli military pushes deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere safe to go.
Israel is using overwhelming force in its push to occupy Gaza City, with tanks and warplanes levelling entire blocks, said Tareq Abu Azzoum, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza.
Residents said Israeli aerial and tank shelling had hit the eastern Gaza City suburbs of Sabra, Shujayea and Tuffah, as well as Jabalia town to the north, destroying roads and houses.
“Earthquakes, we call it; they want to scare people into leaving their homes,” said Ismail, 40, a Gaza City resident.
The Israeli military has said its forces are operating in the area to locate weapons and destroy tunnels used by armed groups.
Despite widespread protests in Israel and international condemnation, Israel is preparing to launch a new offensive in Gaza City.
About half of the enclave’s two million people currently live in Gaza City, with several thousand already having moved westward, pouring into the heart of the city and along the coast.
Others have ventured further south, to central Gaza and the coastal area of al-Mawasi near Khan Younis.
Israel has completely destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City since it started its sustained assault on the city on August 6, according to estimates by the Palestinian Civil Defence.
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Photos: Death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rises in Vietnam
The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki in Vietnam has risen to three as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines, while widespread flooding brought chaos to the streets of the capital Hanoi.
The typhoon struck central Vietnam on Monday with winds of up to 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles per hour), tearing roofs off thousands of homes and knocking out power to more than 1.6 million people.
Authorities on Tuesday said three people had been killed and 13 injured, and warned of possible flash floods and landslides in eight provinces, as Kajiki’s torrential rains continued to wreak havoc.
Vietnam has long been affected by seasonal typhoons, but human-caused climate change is driving more intense and unpredictable weather patterns.
Flooding has cut off 27 villages in mountainous inland areas, while more than 44,000 people were evacuated as the storm approached.
Further north in Hanoi, the heavy rain flooded many streets, bringing traffic chaos on Tuesday morning.
After hitting Vietnam and weakening to a tropical depression, Kajiki swept westwards over northern Laos, bringing intense rain.
In Vietnam, more than 100 people have been killed or reported missing as a result of natural disasters in the first seven months of 2025, according to the agriculture ministry.
In September last year, Typhoon Yagi battered northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, triggering floods and landslides that killed more than 700 people and caused billions of dollars’ worth of economic losses.
Photos: Trump announces new security measures for Washington, DC
United States President Donald Trump has announced new measures that tightened his grip on security in Washington, DC, a day after National Guard troops began carrying weapons in the US capital.
Earlier this month, Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard, who now number more than 2,200, as part of what he has billed as a crackdown on allegedly out-of-control crime in the city.
On Monday, Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to set up a specialised unit within Washington’s National Guard “dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the nation’s capital”.
In the same executive order, Trump directed the hiring of additional US Park Police personnel in the city, as well as more prosecutors to focus on litigating violent and property crimes.
Trump also took aim at cashless bail in a separate order and told law enforcement that anyone arrested should be held in federal custody “to the fullest extent permissible”, and federal charges should be pursued against them.
The previous day, National Guard troops in Washington, DC began carrying their service-issued weapons, the US military said, noting they are only authorised to use force as a last resort.
The National Guard forces in the capital are from overwhelmingly Democratic-voting Washington, DC, as well as the Republican-led states of West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Federal law enforcement personnel, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have also increased their presence on the capital’s streets, drawing protests from some residents.
Photos: Gaza’s Nasser Hospital hit by deadly Israeli strikes
The Israeli military has carried out strikes on Nasser Medical Complex – southern Gaza’s main hospital – killing at least 19 people, including five journalists, the Ministry of Health in the Palestinian enclave said.
Gaza’s Government Media Office confirmed that among the five journalists killed in Monday’s attack on the medical facility in Khan Younis was Al Jazeera’s photojournalist Mohammad Salama.
It named the other slain journalists as Reuters news agency’s Hussam al-Masri; Mariam Abu Daqqa, who worked for several media outlets, including The Independent Arabic and The Associated Press news agency; and Moaz Abu Taha.
A fifth journalist Ahmed Abu Aziz, who worked for the Quds Feed Network and other media outlets, succumbed to his wounds, according to the Media Office statement.
The victims on the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital were killed in a double-tap strike, with one missile hitting first, then another moments later as rescue crews arrived, the ministry said.
The hospital has withstood raids and bombardment throughout 22 months of war, with officials citing critical shortages of supplies and staff.
Israel has repeatedly struck hospitals and schools, rendering most of them out of service.
A June attack on Nasser Hospital had killed three people and wounded 10, according to the Health Ministry. At the time, Israel’s military said it had targeted Hamas fighters operating from a command and control centre inside the hospital. It did not provide any evidence for its claims.
