The Israel continues the attack on Gauze where 34 Palestinians were killed on Saturday (20.09.2025). Hamas warns that hostages are in danger of having the same fate as an Israeli pilot that has disappeared.
In Gaza, Israel’s Armed Forces destroyed underground underground tunnels and trapped explosive structures in attacks that claimed the lives of 34 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities.
The attack takes place while 10 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Britain and Canada, plan to recognize an independent Palestinian state on Monday, September 22, before the UN General Assembly.
Israel’s demolition of Gaza City’s high rises has raised residents’ concerns that the intent is to permanently displace them https://t.co/RcgBRSmyuO pic.twitter.com/yOrp0S2f8E
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 20, 2025
The intensive Israeli military demolition campaign aimed at Gaza’s tall buildings began this week with a land attack.
The Israeli forces, which control the eastern suburbs of the city, have been pounding in the last days of the Sheikh Raduan and Tel al-Haua areas, from which they will be able to move on to the central and western parts of Gaza, where most of them have found refuge.
About 350,000 people have left Gaza since early September
The army estimates that in the last two weeks it has destroyed up to 20 high apartment buildings in Gaza and believes that about 350,000 people have left the city since early September. However, about 600,000 remain.
This number includes some of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
The Palestinian armed organization published on Saturday photos of hostages that remain detained in the Gaza Strip warning that, if Israel continues its attack, they are in danger of having the same fate as that of an Israeli pilot allegedly missing.
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— LatestLY (@latestly) September 20, 2025
Of the 251 people who had been abducted during Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused the war in the Gaza Strip, 47 are still being held on the ground, of which 25 are considered dead by the Israeli army.
The Ezentin al-Kassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, published old photos of 46 of them on their channel on the Telegram, each with his name being named Ron Aradof the Israeli Air Force pilot that has disappeared after his arrest during a mission to Lebanon in 1986, during the Lebanese Civil War.
“Because of his persistence (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his subjugation (leader of the Armed Forces) Zamir (…) Here is a farewell photo taken at the beginning of the business” in the city of Gaza, referring to the text of the brigades.
Al-Qassam Brigades released this video with the caption: Netanyahu is creating dozens of “Ron Arad.”
Ron Arad was an Israeli Air Force pilot who was captured in Lebanon and was considered ‘missing in action’ for nearly 30 years before being declared dead. pic.twitter.com/wWxUO4eoMR
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) September 1, 2024
Ron Arad was originally a prisoner of Shiite organizations in Lebanon and today he is considered dead, while his body was never returned to Israel.
His fate has been concerned for decades, Israel, where the repatriation of extinct or captive soldiers, living or dead, is considered a national duty.