August 20 – October 2, 2025 · Gaza City Theater
August 20 – October 2, 2025
Israel mobilized 60,000 reservists to take Gaza City outright and issued evacuation orders covering some 1.2 million people — an instruction to move that a starving population in a territory with nowhere left to go could not meaningfully follow. The offensive ran through the six weeks in which the IPC confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, and it proceeded against near-universal international objection, including from Israel's own security establishment, much of which argued publicly that the war had passed the point of achievable military objectives.
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