Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of a shooting attack at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.

Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Palestinians in Gaza City to evacuate hours before Israel says it will be ramping up its airstrikes – but residents have “nowhere to go”.

On Monday, the Israeli prime minister said: “I say to the residents of Gaza, I take this opportunity and listen to me carefully: You have been warned – leave now.”

Israel also dropped leaflets advising people to evacuate from Gaza’s largest city to what the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) calls a humanitarian zone in the south.

That means as many as a million people will have to leave – but the UN has warned that nowhere in the Palestinian territory is safe right now.

These latest upcoming strikes are, according to Israel, part of its last warnings to Hamas that it will destroy the entirety of Gaza unless militants accept the US’s latest ceasefire proposal, free all remaining hostages and surrender.

As Israeli defence minister Israel Katz wrote on X: “A mighty hurricane will hit........

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