The Israeli army warns of the “unprecedented” assault on the southern city while dozens killed in strikes through a blocked enclave.
The Israeli army has issued another forced displacement order to residents of the southern city of Khan Younis of Gaza, threatening an “unprecedented” assault after launching a wave of fatal strikes in the region and in a hurry a new punitive soil offensive.
The travel order, published on X by the army Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, also applies to neighboring areas of Bani Suhaila and Abasan. He calls on the Palestinians to move west towards Al-Mawasi.
“From this moment, the governorate of Khan Younis will be considered a dangerous combat zone,” said the post.
This comes one day after the Israeli army has expressed a separate travel order for the central Gaza areas, including the city of Al-Qarara, while its enlarged offensive continues.
The new order also comes as the Israeli forces continue to beat the blocked enclave, where a famine is looming. On Monday, there were at least 30 air strikes in the region of Khan Younis, while Israel hammered the territory widely destroyed from north to south, killing at least 71 people since dawn, medical sources told Tel Aviv Tribune.
The previous forced evacuation orders throughout the 19 -month War of Israel have moved the majority of the Gaza population several times. Many Palestinians were again bombed after fled to “security zones” designated by Israeli, including Al-Mawasi.
‘CHAOS’ State
Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune, Deir El-Balah report in the center of Gaza, said that the order of movement on Monday “reports a potential large-scale attack” in Khan Younis.
“Many families are in a state of chaos. They try to get everything they can from their properties and move to Al-Mawasi, where the Israeli army asked them to go,” said Abu Azzoum, adding that an attack targeting Al-Mawasi earlier in the day had killed two people.
“The repeated deliverance of evacuation orders has broken any feeling of security for the Palestinians,” said Abu Azzoum.
Israeli forces led a massive operation earlier in the war which left a large part of Khan Younis in ruins. Al-Mawasi, where tens of thousands of people have fled, has also been targeted several times by deadly Israeli strikes.
Under the newly launched air and terrestrial offensive, Israel said that it was planning to move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and obtain a distribution of limited aid within the territory – something that was widely criticized by aid groups and the United Nations.
In a video message on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the soldiers should “take control of the entire territory of the Gaza Strip”.
He said that a plan to leave “minimum” help in Gaza aims to relieve the pressure of the allies, who, he said, cannot tolerate “images of … mass hunger”. We still do not know when the aid will be allowed to enter the Palestinian territory, where two million Palestinians “affect”, warned the secretary general of the United Nations Antonio Guterres.
Israel has kept Gaza under a total blockade since the beginning of March, pushing the population there in famine while the health system remains under Israeli attack and quickly collapsed because its access to medical equipment, supplies and fuel has been cut.
Meanwhile, the Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din brigades, the military wing of popular resistance committees, a Palestinian group in Gaza, confirmed that one of its commanders, Ahmed Sarhan, was killed in Khan Younis.
Sarhan was killed in an infiltration operation supported by Israeli drones and jets early on Monday.
The group said the Israeli special forces had tried to capture the commander, but he was killed during a shooting after retalling.
