Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israeli forces strike south Gaza

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Palestinians flee Khan Younis as ******** forces strike south Gaza

Palestinians have been fleeing districts to the east of Gaza’s second city of Khan Younis after ******* issued evacuation orders.

Overnight and into the morning, witnesses reported multiple ******** strikes in and around Khan Younis. A medical source and the ************ Red Crescent said eight people had been ******* and more than 30 wounded.

Patients and medical staff have also been leaving the ********* Gaza hospital in the area, as the ******-run health ministry in Gaza told them to evacuate.

The ******** military has not itself issued an evacuation order for the hospital.

The Red Cross is reported to have helped patients in the process of transferring to another hospital.

Louise Wateridge, an official with the UN agency for ************ refugees (Unrwa) in Gaza, asked where people could go as they were forced to leave their homes once again.

“In this area, people were already forced to survive in severely damaged, destroyed, structurally unsafe buildings after the Rafah military operation,” she said.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement on its latest operation in Gaza, saying it was responding to some 20 projectiles that were launched from the area of Khan Yunis towards ******* on Monday.

“Overnight, the IDF struck ******* targets in the area from which the projectiles were fired, including a weapons storage facility, operational centres and additional ********** infrastructure sites,” it continued.

The IDF said ****** was continuing to “systematically violate international law while using civilian infrastructure and the civilian population as human shields”.

The armed wing of ************ Islamic ****** said it had carried out the ******* on Monday, the biggest barrage launched into ******* from Gaza for months.

Much of Khan Younis was destroyed in a sustained ******** offensive against ****** earlier this year.

The city to which some of its residents subsequently returned is almost unrecognizable. Nevertheless, many moved back to take refuge from *******’s offensive in Rafah.

Now, once again, many are on the move, fearing a major new ********.

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