Al Jazeera has spoken with several displaced Palestinians who, unable to travel with their belongings on Salah al-Din Street, were “forced to drop off their possessions and sleep on the side of the road”.

Salah al-Din Street, a key route used by forcibly displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza, has been shut by Israeli forces, leaving only the coastal al-Rashid Street as their remaining option.

“The situation is very difficult… The [Israeli] occupation wants you to hate life. It doesn’t want you to live,” Ahmed Natat, a displaced Palestinian who slept on the side of the street with his family, told Al Jazeera’s Hind Khodary.

“This is a suffering we’ve never experienced before,” added Abdallah Natat, another displaced Palestinian.

 A Palestinian man sits on the ground as he eats rice that she obtained from a community kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2025. — AFP
A Palestinian man sits on the ground as he eats rice that she obtained from a community kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2025. — AFP

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