At Least 30 Are Reported Killed in Khan Younis in 24 Hours

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At Least 30 Are Reported ******* in Khan Younis in 24 Hours

At least 30 people were ******* and dozens more injured over a 24-hour ******* on Wednesday and Thursday in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said, as the ******** military pushed deeper into parts of Khan Younis that it had previously designated as humanitarian zones for civilians fleeing the fighting.

The ******** military, which began a renewed offensive in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this week, said it was targeting ****** forces whom it accused of embedding fighters among civilians.

Many of the victims were taken to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, where photos taken by a photographer for Agence France-Presse showed bloodied children being rushed in for care.

Mohammad Saqer, the director of nursing at Nasser Hospital, said he had treated three children for severe blast wounds, which he said were most likely from bombardment. Dr. Saqer, who has worked at the medical center for 18 years, said few shipments of medicine and fuel were arriving at the hospital, making treatment difficult.

“So many *****, so many wounded, not enough beds,” Dr. Saqer said. “The situation’s disastrous. We’re rationing electricity, turning off air conditioning, trying to save what we can.”

Patients at the facility have been forced to share beds, and the hospital was “under enormous strain as the ********, wounding and maiming of people continues relentlessly in southern Gaza,” the aid group Doctors Without Borders

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earlier in the week.

The ******* Nations said that 150,000 people fled Khan Younis on Monday alone, the day the renewed ******** offensive began, and that “large-scale displacement” from the area was ongoing.

In Al-Mawasi, the coastal town where the ******** military ordered Khan Younis residents to go, there is “no space for even a single tent due to the overwhelming number of people desperate for safety,” the ************ Red Crescent said. The group said that one of its ambulances came under ***** on Thursday as medics were trying assisting injured civilians.

Fighting in recent days has centered around three towns near the city of Khan Younis — Bani Suaila, Al Zanna and Al Qarara. On Wednesday, the ******** military discovered the bodies of five Israelis in Al Qarara who had been ******* in ******’s Oct. 7 ******* on *******. The bodies were found in a tunnel used by militants.

“****** exploited the humanitarian area and used it to hold our hostages captive,” the military said in a statement on social media. ****** did not issue a response on its social media channels.

******** officials say 115 hostages remain in Gaza, including roughly 40 who are presumed *****.

The military said on Thursday that ****** had launched several rockets toward ******* from the humanitarian area in Khan Younis earlier in the day. But the strike did not reach ******* and at least one rocket hit a U.N.-run school in Al Qarara, ******** two people and injuring several others, the military said.

Schools have not been operating during the war and most of them have become shelters for displaced people. UNRWA, the ******* Nations’ main relief group for Palestinians that runs schools, did not confirm the *******.

The ******** military said its forces operating in Khan Younis had ******* dozens of ****** militants over the past day and struck more than 60 ******* targets.

Gaza’s health ministry said ******** military strikes on areas in eastern Khan Younis ******* at least 14 people early Thursday, with airstrikes reported in southern Gaza and tanks advancing in central Rafah.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the ************ Civil Defense, said ******** forces had ******* at least 17 people on Thursday in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and in Khan Younis, ******** snipers shot and ******* at least one person while he was moving down Salah al-Din Street, Gaza’s main north-south route, he said. The ******** military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident.

Anushka Patil and Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting.

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