{"id":138737,"date":"2025-09-15T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138737\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:14:08","slug":"bbc-verify-live-verifying-tower-block-destruction-in-gaza-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138737\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Verifying tower block destruction in Gaza City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli bombardment of Gaza City continuespublished at 10:40 BST<\/p>\n

10:40 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n

We\u2019re continuing to verify footage emerging from Gaza City over the weekend after the Israeli air force destroyed more tower blocks and other buildings.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gave four evacuation notices for prominent high-rise buildings. All four were later destroyed and we have verified the footage. <\/p>\n

An separate evacuation notice was issued on Saturday and that building was flattened the same day. <\/p>\n

The picture below is from a video showing the moment one of the buildings, Al-Kawthar Tower, was bombed.<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, X<\/p>\n

The IDF has been targeting tall buildings across Gaza City for more than a week now, but it\u2019s not just the multi-storeys highlighted on social media being hit. <\/p>\n

Many of the videos we\u2019ve verified show the destruction of other buildings, as well as vehicles.<\/p>\n

On Friday the IDF said its airstrikes had targeted \u201cover 500 objectives\u201d, external<\/a> in Gaza City. <\/p>\n

It said it was destroying \u201ctowers converted into military infrastructure\u201d as well as \u201creconnaissance and sniper positions, buildings containing operational tunnel openings, weapons warehouses, and other terrorist infrastructure\u201d. <\/p>\n

It did not provide any evidence to support these claims.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, thousands of displaced people are leaving Gaza and heading south, where new encampments are being set up.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll bring you more on all of this throughout the day, and we\u2019ll continue to monitor for new developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli bombardment of Gaza City continuespublished at 10:40 BST 10:40 BST Benedict GarmanBBC Verify senior journalist We\u2019re continuing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-138737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}