Jerusalem (EFE).- He Israeli Army The Israeli government issued new evacuation orders early Saturday to civilians in the southern neighborhoods of the city of Khan Yunis (south of the Gaza Strip). Loop), and has ordered them to move to the Mawasi area, whose perimeter is increasingly reduced.
“Due to significant terrorist activity and rocket fire towards the State of Israel from the southern area of Khan Younis, staying in this area has become dangerous,” the army said in a statement.
Israel says its intelligence indicates that the Islamist group Hamas has now set up “terrorist infrastructure” in the southern humanitarian zone of Mawasi.
“Our army is about to operate against terrorist organizations and therefore we call on the population remaining in the southern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis to temporarily evacuate to the Mawasi humanitarian area,” they added in the text.
Messages, calls and leaflets
Evacuation orders are reaching civilians through SMS messages, recorded voice messages, phone calls, Arabic media broadcasts and leaflets, according to its statement.
Gazan sources confirmed to EFE that the first artillery attacks are already taking place in the south of Khan Yunis.
The area Israel is now asking to be evacuated had already been designated as part of the Mawasi humanitarian zone, next to Jaun Yunis, which has also been bombed several times, meaning that there is less and less space in this area, already overcrowded with Gazans living in tents without water or electricity.
In fact, in recent days more than 150,000 Gazans have been forced to leave the eastern neighbourhoods of the southern city of Khan Yunis and move to the humanitarian zone of Mawasi after receiving evacuation orders from the Army on Monday.
Two days later, Israeli troops recovered the bodies of five hostages killed during Hamas attacks on October 7.
The Israeli offensive against the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis left more than 130 Gazans dead and more than 400 wounded.
“Our army will continue to act against the terrorist organization Hamas, which uses Gaza civilians as human shields for its activities and infrastructure,” they warn in their statement.
At least 30 dead in attack on field hospital
In the centre of the Gaza Strip, at least 30 people have been killed, including women and children, and more than 100 wounded, following an Israeli airstrike with three missiles on a field hospital set up inside the Khadija school in Deir al Balah.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the perpetration of this horrific massacre by the Israeli occupation against a field hospital providing medical services to dozens of patients and wounded, all of them civilians,” the Gaza government said in a statement.
The Khadija school housed more than 4,000 people displaced from other parts of the enclave.
The wounded are being taken to Al Aqsa Hospital, located in the same area, where medical teams, with few resources, are working tirelessly, a spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed to EFE.
Meanwhile, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported five civilian deaths and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Israeli helicopters also attacked a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave today, leaving several people injured, according to Wafa.
