New waves of enforced displacement for eastern Khan Younis
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza, Palestine
The past 24 hours have been quite difficult for residents of the eastern parts of Khan Younis.
Khan Younis was under heavy military incursions and pretty much full Israeli control for four months.
The entire city was obliterated and all of its social services destroyed.
Now a new wave of enforced displacement is pushing residents from the eastern parts of Khan Younis into the central and western parts of the city, including the al-Mawasi āevacuation zoneā, that has been largely unsafe as it was repeatedly bombed.
The lack of fuel means what people are doing right now is either walking for miles or using animals to pull carts to leave.
This constant movement and enforced displacement is taking its toll on a population that has been traumatised and displaced for the past nine months.
Displaced Palestinians leave an area in eastern Khan Younis after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city on Monday [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
āFear and extreme anxietyā grip Khan Younis as Israel orders more mass displacement
The AFP news agency is reporting a wave of Israeli strikes in southern Gaza as Palestinians flee areas of Khan Younis city and Rafah following the Israeli order to evacuate immediately.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency of multiple strikes in and around Khan Younis city, where at least eight people were killed and more than 30 were wounded overnight, according to a medical source and the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Ahmad Najjar, a resident of the Bani Suheila area of Khan Younis, said āa large displacement of residentsā is under way.
āFear and extreme anxiety have gripped people after the evacuation order,ā he said.
Source for both:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/live...dents-flee-khan-younis-amid-artillery-attacks