People flee Khan Younis after Israeli military orders evacuation of city

Описание: (19 May 2025)
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Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip - 19 May 2025
1. Various of displaced people from eastern Khan Younis carrying their belongings and evacuating on carts and on foot
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammad Saboun, displaced from east of Khan Younis:
"Shame on them, where are the Arab countries? Where is the world? They don't see us? The worries we are in are enough, enough, we are a family of wounded and martyrs, may God take revenge on them, O Lord, God is sufficient for me against them."
3. Various of people carrying their belongings and fleeing
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asmahan Abu Al-Kheir, displaced from east of Khan Younis:
"We died, we suffocated, shame on them, God punish them, God punish them, just as they have expelled us from our homes more than once. Where do we go? Where do we go? We have no place to go. Where do we go? Our children were martyred. Where do we go? Where do we run?"
5. Various of people carrying their belongings and fleeing
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Noha Abu Reda, displaced from east of Khan Younis:
"I was displaced more than 12 times, once to Rafah, once to Al-Aqsa University, once to Ramida, once to Khuza'a and once again to Al-Aqsa University. What happened? Stop this war. I swear there is no need for it."
7. Various of people carrying their belongings and fleeing
STORYLINE:
Thousands evacuated Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Monday after the Israeli military issued a warning urging residents to leave the area.

Children held their parents' hands as teenagers pushed trolleys through the dirt and others flailed their arms in anger.

"Shame on them, God punish them, God punish them," said Asmahan Abu Al-Kheir as she fled from her home east of Khan Younis.

"Where do we go? We have no place to go. Where do we go?"  

Israel over the weekend launched a new wave of air and ground operations across Gaza, and the army ordered the evacuation of Khan Younis, where Israel carried out a massive operation earlier in the 19-month war that left much of the area in ruins.

The evacuations come as first few aid trucks entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade of food, medicine and other supplies, Israel and the United Nations said on Monday.

Five trucks carrying baby food and other desperately needed aid entered the territory of over 2 million Palestinians via the Kerem Shalom crossing, according to the Israeli defense body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, COGAT.

The U.N. called it a “welcome development” but said far more aid is needed.

Food security experts last week warned of famine in Gaza. 

During the latest ceasefire that Israel ended in March, some 600 aid trucks entered Gaza each day.

AP video shot by: Abdel Kareem Hana
Production by: Wafaa Shurafa
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