Israel Strikes Southern Gaza After Ordering Evacuations: Latest Updates

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******* Strikes Southern Gaza After Ordering Evacuations: Latest Updates

******** forces struck southern Gaza overnight, targeting areas of Khan Younis from which rockets had been launched at ******* a day earlier, the military said on Tuesday.

The strikes came after the ******** military ordered new evacuations of eastern Khan Younis and the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Such orders are usually an indication that the military plans a ground ********, but the military did not say on Tuesday whether it would send troops into Khan Younis, an area its forces invaded earlier in the war but had vacated.

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posted late Monday on social media by the ******** military’s spokesman for ***** media, Avichay Adraee, said that people in the designated areas “must evacuate immediately” for their safety. That area includes the ********* Gaza Hospital, leading scores of patients and medical staff there to flee.

Doctors at the hospital, near Khan Younis, said overnight on Monday that they had also received orders to evacuate. The ******** military said in a statement on Tuesday morning that it had “no intention to evacuate the ********* Hospital.”

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By Leanne Abraham

Large swaths of Khan Younis were leveled during an extended ******** at the beginning of the year, after which ******** forces withdrew, claiming to have destroyed the ****** battalions there. But ******** commanders have repeatedly sent troops back into areas they had supposedly secured to put down resurgent pockets of ****** fighters.

The evacuation order was announced after the ******** military reported that at least 20 rockets were fired from southern Gaza toward ******* and said it had fired artillery in response, striking the sources of the launches.

Most of Gaza’s population of some 2.2 million has been displaced over the course of the war; many people have been forced to flee repeatedly under evacuation orders or to escape fighting.

The ******* Nations condemned Monday’s evacuation order. “It shows yet again that no place is safe in Gaza,” Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the U.N. secretary general,

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, adding that the announcement underscored the need for a cease-*****. “It is another stop in this deadly circular movement that the population of Gaza has to undergo on a regular basis,” he added.

VideoDr. Mohammed Harara, who sees patients at the ********* Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, shared videos with The New York Times showing wounded patients being transferred to ambulances following evacuation orders in the area.CreditCredit…Jehad Alshrafi/Associated Press

Dr. Mohammed Harara, an emergency doctor at the ********* Gaza Hospital, shared videos with The New York Times on Monday that showed wounded patients at the hospital being transferred to stretchers and others being wheeled out, with rooms in disarray from the hurried evacuations. He estimated that there had been about 600 patients at the hospital and said he was still there, working on the evacuations.

In a message sent in the early hours of Tuesday, Dr. Harara said he could hear ******** very close by and that injured patients were arriving at the hospital, despite the evacuation order.

A doctor at Nasser Hospital, about six miles away, reported “mass chaos” and fistfights at its emergency room as ambulances arrived with patients from ********* Gaza Hospital, who had to vie for care with incoming patients from the area.

The doctor, Hina Cheema, a Pakistani ********* on a humanitarian mission at Nasser, said that the evacuations were complicated because roads in the area had been mostly destroyed and were now crowded with people fleeing, and that unstable patients risked ****** during transport. The drive from ********* Gaza Hospital to Nasser takes about 30 minutes in the current conditions, both she and Dr. Harara said.

There were about 300 to 400 beds at ********* Gaza Hospital, said Shéhérazade Kaoues, a spokeswoman for

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, a U.S.-based nonprofit group that has been organizing humanitarian medical missions to Gaza. But many more patients and displaced people were sheltering there before the evacuation order came, she said.

Ms. Kaoues said her organization had three foreign medical volunteers at ********* Gaza, but that all had been evacuated to a safe house.

In May, a group of about 16 international health care workers were stranded at ********* Gaza Hospital for roughly two weeks after ******* seized the Rafah border crossing near Egypt. At the time, there were no evacuation orders for the hospital, said Adam Hamawy, an ********* doctor at the hospital at the time. He wrote to President Biden about the dire peril in Gaza, saying that

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including civilians and humanitarian workers.

One of the medical workers who had been stranded at ********* Gaza in May, Dr. Mohammed Tahir, is an orthopedic and peripheral nerve surgeon from Britain who is now on his second medical mission with Fajr Scientific at the ********* Gaza Hospital. On Monday, he said he had evacuated to a safe house. In

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posted on social media and shared with The Times, he said, “My feelings are that of disbelief, heartbreak, sadness. I literally left my patients back in the E.G.H. I don’t know who is going to look after them.”

He described working on patients with complicated injuries before his evacuation, including bone infections, and said he was uncertain of their fates. “These people will become ***** very quickly and possibly even **** within a matter of days,” he said.

Neil MacFarquhar contributed reporting.

— Ang Li and Ephrat Livni

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