Israel widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza. Hamas wants plans for a deal instead of more talks

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******* widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza. ****** wants plans for a deal instead of more talks

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The ******** military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday, a day after a

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in the north ******* at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. The airstrike was one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month war.

****** appeared to push back against resuming negotiations on Thursday on any new cease-***** proposals. In a statement, it urged mediators ******* States, Egypt and Qatar to submit a plan to implement what was agreed on last month, based on

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, “instead of going to more rounds of negotiations or new proposals that provide cover for the occupation’s aggression.”

******* has repeatedly ordered mass evacuations as its troops return to heavily destroyed areas where they previously battled ************ militants. The vast majority of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been displaced, often multiple times, in the

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25 miles (40 kilometers) long by about 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide.

The latest evacuation orders apply to areas of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, including part of an ********-declared humanitarian zone from which the military said rockets had been fired. ******* accuses ****** and other militants of hiding among civilians and launching attacks from residential areas.

The humanitarian zone has steadily shrunk during the war with the various evacuation orders. Hundreds of thousands of people have crammed into squalid tent camps with few public services or sought shelter in schools, though the ******* Nations says hundreds of those have been directly hit or damaged.

Khan Younis

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during an air and ground offensive earlier this year. Tens of thousands fled again last week after an evacuation order.

The new order came in leaflets dropped from the sky. As smoke rose on the horizon, hundreds of families carrying belongings in their arms left homes and shelters, seeking elusive refuge. One child carried a stuffed Hello Kitty doll as others walked through rubble-filled streets.

“We don’t know where to go,” said Amal Abu Yahia, a mother of three, who had returned to Khan Younis in June to shelter in their severely damaged home. It was the fourth displacement for the 42-year-old widow, whose husband was ******* when an ******** airstrike hit their neighbors’ house in March.

She said they went to Muwasi, a sprawling tent camp along the coast, but couldn’t find space.

Ramadan Issa, a father of five in his 50s, fled Khan Younis with 17 members of his extended family, joining hundreds of people walking toward central Gaza.

“Every time we settle in one place and build tents for women and children, the occupation comes and ****** the area,” he said, referring to *******. “This situation is unbearable.”

Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants, says the ************ ****** toll from the war is approaching 40,000. Aid groups have struggled to address the staggering humanitarian crisis, while international experts

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The war began when ******-led militants burst through *******’s defenses on Oct. 7 and rampaged through farming communities and army bases near the border, ******** around 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducting around 250 people. Of

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, ******** authorities believe around a third are *****.

The conflict has threatened to trigger a regional war, as ******* has traded ***** with

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across the region. “I hope that they will think this through and won’t get to a point where they will force us to cause significant damage and increase the chances of war breaking out on additional fronts,” ******** Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday.

In Lebanon, the Health Ministry said an ******** strike near the southern town of Taybeh ******* two people, without giving details. *******’s military said it struck a cell of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah announced the deaths of three militants, without details, and said it conducted rocket and artillery attacks on ******** military positions.

In the occupied West Bank, which has seen increased ********* since the war began, *******’s military said that an ******** civilian was fatally shot in an ******* by “terrorists” in the area of Mehola Junction. The military said the “terrorists” opened ***** from a passing vehicle at other cars, and another civilian was wounded. Soldiers were pursuing the attackers.

*******’s airstrike on Saturday hit a mosque inside a school in Gaza City where thousands of people were sheltering. The ******** military said it ******* 19 ****** and Islamic ****** militants. ****** and ************ activists disputed that, saying two of the 19 were ******* in earlier strikes and others were known to be civilians or opponents of ******.

Northern Gaza has been surrounded by ******** forces and largely cut off from the world, and it wasn’t possible to independently confirm accounts from either side. ********* leaders and neighbors of ******* condemned the strike.

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Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Kareem Chehayeb contributed to this report from Beirut.

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