Palestinians are displaced in large numbers as a result of Israel’s attack on Gaza City, according to satellite photos

Satellite imagery shows the mass displacement of Palestinians as the Israeli military launched its intense effort to take total control of Gaza City.

Vast tent encampments across the Sheik Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city center, almost completely emptied out in the first few weeks of September as residents fled the operation and headed south to what the Israeli military is calling a designated humanitarian zone.

With the support of a lethal aerial bombing campaign, Israeli tanks and men have advanced inside the city in recent days. According to the Palestinian Telecommunications Company, phone and internet connections seemed to have been severed throughout the enclave.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on reports of a blackout.

And while many said they had no choice but to stay put in Gaza City despite the ground offensive, hundreds of thousands fled — many on their latest round of displacement in this war.

At least 250 tents may be seen in one photo shot on September 2 at Sheik Radwan, just north of the Al-Furqan Mosque. There are less than 50 left by September 15.

An area previously used as a parking lot for the neighborhood market housed nearly 200 tents on Sept. 2. By Sept. 16, they had all disappeared.

On September 2, there were more than 125 tents in a third refugee camp on Salah Khalaf Street. They were all gone by September 15th as well.

Multiple explosions were captured in drone footage that was geolocated near Sheik Radwan by NBC News and circulated on social media on Wednesday. The film showed tanks driving through the area.

At dawn on Thursday, Al-Rashid Road, which runs along Gaza’s coast, was clogged with cars and carts carrying people’s belongings.

But aid groups have warned that conditions in the south are also dire, with famine spreading throughout the enclave and supplies of food and medicine scarce.

One mother, Maysa Kamal Gaber Nasar, stated, “We are searching for a place, and we can’t find any,” while pushing a cart full of her family’s possessions across the floor while she held a baby.

For over three days, her family has been searching for refuge in Khan Younis after fleeing Gaza City south.

“They told us, ‘It’s safe, it’s safe’,” she continued. “But there is nothing.”