A War Without Refuge The Gaza Strip in late 2025 is a landscape of ruin. What began with Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and Israel’s devastating military response has metastasized into one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century. Entire neighborhoods have been flattened, hospitals and schools turned to rubble, and critical infrastructure—water,...
On September 9, 2025, the Israeli military issued an across-the-board evacuation order or Gaza City—home to roughly one million people—dropping leaflets that warned of a looming “obliteration” of the area. Despite urging residents to flee to the southern “humanitarian zone” at al-Mawasi, only about 50,000 people relocated, citing prohibitive costs (over US $1,000) and logistical...