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Israeli forces said they struck dozens of sites in Khan Younis where Hamas operated and fired rockets, and they shrank the “humanitarian zone” where civilians had been told to go.
Published July 22, 2024Updated July 23, 2024, 5:34 a.m. ET
The Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate part of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday and bombarded the area, killing scores of people and wounding hundreds, local health officials reported, adding to the misery of a city already deeply scarred by nine and a half months of war.
The military said it was moving further into Khan Younis because Hamas was trying to regroup there and had used part of what was designated a humanitarian zone to fire rockets toward Israel. The military also noted that it had warned civilians earlier on Monday, before it began its operations, to leave the “specific areas of Khan Younis,” shrinking the zone it had identified for people displaced from their homes by the war.
Israel’s new evacuation area was previously part of its safe zone.
ISRAEL
Safe zone
Evacuation
zone declared
Monday
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declared since May
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Israel’s new evacuation area was previously part of its safe zone.
ISRAEL
Safe zone
Evacuation
zone declared
Monday
Evacuation zone
declared since
early May
Rafah
EGYPT
N
2 miles
The Gazan health ministry said 70 bodies were brought to Nasser Hospital, and at least 200 other people had been wounded, figures that could not be confirmed independently, adding that others were almost certainly buried under rubble. The Palestine Red Crescent said its teams in the area had dealt with at least 12 people who had been killed and 50 wounded.
Mohammed Saqer, the director general of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said hundreds of injured men, women, children and older people had been brought to the hospital, which lacked mattresses, blankets, syringes and other essentials.
“The situation is appalling,” Dr. Saqer said in an interview, adding that some injuries had necessitated amputations while other people had sustained serious burns.
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