Khan Younis is ordered to leave southern Gaza by Israel

 Khan Younis is ordered to leave southern Gaza by Israel

The main city in southern Gaza, Khan Yunis, is home to Palestinians who have been ordered to flee by Israel.

Thousands of civilians who evacuated northern Gaza when Israel began a ground operation against Hamas are now living in the city.

According to the latest directive, military activities could soon relocate south of the Gaza Strip.

Following the October 7 assaults on Israel that resulted in 1,200 deaths and more than 240 hostages, Israel has declared its intention to destroy Hamas.

Since then, Israel is believed to have murdered over 12,000 people, including 5,000 children, according to the Gaza health ministry operated by Hamas.

According to a local health authority, 26 people were killed when Israeli missiles attacked a residential structure in Khan Yunis on Saturday.

Israel has not yet responded to the occurrence.

However, it is distributing flyers encouraging people to seek shelter by evacuating a large area.

"People are being asked to relocate. We don't want to see civilians caught in the crossfire, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisor Mark Regev said to the US network. "I know it's not easy for many of them." Friday on MSNBC, "Want."

According to Mr. Regev, Israel did not want "civilians caught in the crossfire."

While he expressed his "absolutely sure" that those being pushed to evacuate would do so if they were to travel west and get to the Mediterranean Sea, they "will not have to move again," he warned that Israeli soldiers would need to march inside the city in order to expel Hamas militants from the subterranean tunnels.

"Hopefully there will be tents and a field hospital" in the regions they are being requested to travel, Mr. Regev said. However, no such preparations have been made public yet, and it is unclear if such a plan would be in place. It's possible that the facilities might house over a million displaced individuals.

Humanitarian supplies may be sent "as quickly as possible" in the western regions, according to Mr. Regev, since they are near to Egypt's Rafah border.

Similar to other parts of the Gaza Strip, southern Gaza has been experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe ever since Israel imposed a complete embargo on October 7.

There have been several reports of shortages of food, gasoline, and water, along with worries about medical services and hygienic conditions.

Israel has been attacking the Gaza Strip practically nonstop with airstrikes and ground incursions into the northern part of the territory. One such assault reduced Gaza metropolis, the biggest metropolis inside the enclave, to ashes.

Overcrowding is a big worry, with the UN estimating that at least 1.5 million people are internally displaced in Gaza. In addition to hospitals, churches, and public buildings, a large number of people are seeking refuge in UN structures.

Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has been the scene of most of the recent fighting; Israel claims that Hamas has a command-and-control center there; Hamas disputes this claim. Israel still hasn't offered enough proof to back up its assertion.

A journalist who was leaving the hospital told the BBC that "we had our hands raised and white flags" as hundreds of people were believed to have left Al-Shifa on Saturday.

Although the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced it had complied with the hospital director's request and was offering "safe passage" to individuals who want to depart, the IDF denied giving the order to evacuate the hospital. Was once.

120 victims, including preterm newborns, are reportedly still hospitalized, according to Hamas authorities.

There are also rumors that many people were killed when a UN school in northern Gaza that had been turned into a refuge was also attacked.

According to the AFP news agency, the Israeli strike on the al-Fakhoura school resulted in the deaths of at least fifty individuals, according to the Gaza Strip's health ministry, which is governed by Hamas.

Geolocated film of the school, obtained by BBC Verify, shows a number of victims, including women and children, either unconscious on the floor or with significant injuries in different sections of the structure.

More than 20 of these victims were seen in the video, with almost half of them occurring in a single ground floor room, suggesting extensive devastation.

An IDF spokeswoman informed the BBC that they were looking into the event and that they could not confirm that it was an IDF assault.

The director of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, said that his organization was "sheltering thousands of displaced persons" inside a school where he had witnessed "horrific images and footage" of several people being murdered or maimed.

"These attacks must end; they cannot become commonplace," he said.