Israel orders new evacuations in Khan Younis, main city in southern Gaza

Israel ordered the evacuation of large parts of the main city in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Linkreported the UN.

O UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA) said that Israel released maps showing new areas marked for evacuation in about 20% of the city of Jan Yunis.

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Before the fighting began, the area had more than 110,000 inhabitants, according to THE TEA.

The area also includes 32 shelters with more than 140,000 internally displaced people, most of them people who had to leave the north of the Palestinian territory, he added.

The Israeli military reported on Wednesday that “Land, air and naval operations were carried out against dozens of terrorists and terrorist infrastructures”In Khan Yunis.

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The war between Israel and Hamasthat governs the Gaza stripbroke out after the bloody attacks of October 7th of the Islamic group in southern Israel that left around 1,140 people dead, according to an AFP count based on the latest Israeli figures.

The subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza left at least 20,000 dead in Linkmainly children and women, according to the Hamas government.

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