More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled bombardment around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in the past four days, according to the United Nations.
The UN humanitarian agency OCHA reported on Friday that recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Younis area, more than nine months into the Israeli war, have triggered “new waves of internal displacement across Gaza.” It stated that “about 182,000 people” have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Younis between Monday and Thursday, while “hundreds of other people remain stranded in eastern Khan Younis.”
On Monday, the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for parts of the southern city, announcing that its forces would “forcefully operate” there, including in an area previously declared a safe humanitarian zone.
Earlier reports from an Al Jazeera team in Deir el-Balah indicated that at least 18 people were killed in Israeli air raids on Khan Younis.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said that people injured in the attacks could not be reached “because the Israeli military did not give them time to evacuate after ordering the evacuation.”
“People who managed to evacuate are on the streets; they did not have time to gather their belongings,” she said. “They are suffering from the heat, diseases spreading, and poor hygienic conditions causing skin rashes and other issues,” Khoudary noted.
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