Khan Yunis back under Israeli siege as 250,000 face renewed displacement
The Cradle | July 3, 2024
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from Gaza’s southern city of Khan Yunis due to new evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army.
The UN has warned that 250,000 people would be affected by the evacuation orders.
“Just weeks after people were forced to return to a devastated Khan Yunis, Israeli authorities have issued new evacuation orders for the area. Yet again, families face forced displacement. We estimate 250,000 people will have to flee. Even though nowhere is safe in Gaza,” UNRWA said on 2 July.
Sigrid Kaag, UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza, said the new evacuation orders increased the number of displaced people in Gaza to 1.9 million, around 80 percent of the territory’s population.
As people flee the southern city, Israel’s relentless attacks have continued.
Twelve people were killed in the central city of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike on a home. Nine of the casualties were members of one family who had fled Khan Yunis after the evacuation order. Five children and three women were among those killed.
“The bodies of 12 people were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, following an airstrike by the occupation forces on the Eslayyim family house in the city,” WAFA news agency’s correspondent reported.
The family had fled from Khan Yunis to a designated “safe zone” in Deir al-Balah, where they were killed by the Israeli strike.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that eight people were killed and 30 injured in other Israeli attacks, which targeted densely populated neighborhoods that Palestinians were fleeing from in Khan Yunis on Tuesday.
The attacks came a day after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Quds Brigades launched around 20 rockets towards Israel.
Shortly after the rocket attack on Monday, Israel ordered the evacuation of Al-Qarara, Bani Suheila, and other areas of Khan Yunis.
Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Yunis in April following months of extensive operations that began in December, leaving much of the city destroyed. Tel Aviv claimed that Hamas was cleared from the area.
Israeli troops are currently operating and taking heavy losses in the southernmost city of Rafah, which Israel previously claimed was Hamas’ final stronghold.
It is also facing fierce resistance in Gaza City’s northern Shujaiya neighborhood – an area that Tel Aviv’s forces recently re-entered after claiming it had “dismantled” Hamas in the north.
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