Israeli army orders a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis

Описание: (2 Jul 2024)

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 1 July 2024
1. Various of man showing the message from Israeli army that asked people to evacuate
2. Various of people carrying belongings and evacuating from east of Khan Younis
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeinab Abu Jazar, displaced person:
"We received a message on our mobile phones: Look at these children, how they walk. We did not find a car to ride in. Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs (a phrase used to express grief and reliance on God for justice)."
4. Various of people evacuating
STORYLINE:
The Israeli army ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis on Monday, a sign that troops are likely to launch a new ground assault in the Gaza Strip’s second largest city.

The order suggested Khan Younis will be the target in the latest of Israel’s repeated raids into parts of Gaza it had previously invaded during the past nearly nine months.

Much of Khan Younis was already destroyed in a long assault earlier this year, but large numbers of Palestinians have since moved back in to escape another Israeli offensive in Gaza’s southernmost area of Rafah.

Monday’s evacuation call covered the entire eastern half of Khan Younis and a large swath of the Gaza Strip’s southeast corner.

Israeli forces fought for weeks in Khan Younis earlier this year and withdrew, claiming to have destroyed Hamas battalions in the city.

An evacuation and eruption of fighting in the Khan Younis area could further hamper Palestinians’ access to much-needed potable water.

Included in the evacuation zone is a water line that Israel installed following criticism over its cutoff of water to the strip early in its campaign.

Also in the zone is the area surrounding the Kerem Shalom crossing, the major aid crossing to southern Gaza, as well as an aid route that Israel said it would safeguard to allow trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter the strip.

Very little aid has entered the strip due to lawlessness along the aid route, and a new offensive would risk further harming aid efforts.

AP video by Mohammad Jahjouh
Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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