70 dead following new evacuation order in Gaza as Israel redeploys tanks into Khan Younis,

GAZA:Israel sent tanks back into the greater Khan Younis area after ordering evacuations of some districts it said had been used for renewed attacks by militants and at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, Gaza medics said on Monday.

As of Monday, Israel’s retaliatory attack had killed at least 39,006 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.

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A cease-fire initiative sponsored by Qatar and Egypt and supported by the United States has so far failed due to differences over parameters among the combatants, who blame each other for the standoff.

Tank salvoes killed Palestinians in Bani Suhaila and other communities along Khan Younis’ eastern border, and the region was also pounded by air, according to reports.

Residents of the heavily populated neighborhood of southern Gaza reported the tanks moved for more than two kilometers into Bani Suhaila, forcing them to evacuate under fire.

“It is like doomsday,” one resident, only named as Abu Khaled, told Reuters via chat app. “People are fleeing under fire, many are dead and wounded on the roads.”

The Gaza health ministry reported that Israeli fire killed numerous women and children and wounded at least 186 others. The Gaza ministry’s casualty tolls make no distinction between terrorists and civilians.

Around 400,000 people live in the targeted regions, and hundreds of families have begun to flee their homes, according to Palestinian officials, who claim they were not given enough time to evacuate before the Israeli attacks began.

Some families left with donkey carts, while others walked, carrying mattresses and other things. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, two of its facilities in eastern Khan Younis have been forced to close due to Israel’s current attack.

Some people gathered outside the morgue at Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital to say goodbye to their deceased relatives. “We are tired, we are tired in Gaza; every day, every moment, our children are martyred,” said Ahmed Sammour, whose relatives were killed in explosions in eastern Khan Younis.

Nobody warned us we needed to evacuate. They brought four storeys tumbling down on citizens… and the victims they could reach were taken to the refrigerator (morgue),” Sammour explained.

There was no apparent Israeli response to the attacks on the eastern part of Khan Younis, whose residents fled their houses when Israeli tanks swept in many months ago before returning to rebuild their lives.

An Israeli airstrike damaged a tent used by local journalists inside Al-Aqsa Hospital in adjacent Deir Al-Balah, killing one and injuring two others, according to the Hamas-run Gaza government’s media office.

The additional fatality brings the total number of Palestinian journalists murdered in the Israeli onslaught to 163, it said.

EVACUATION ORDERS

Earlier on Monday, the Israeli military said it had issued additional evacuation orders in response to continued Palestinian terrorist assaults, including rockets fired from targeted locations in eastern Khan Younis. Palestinians said that the instructions did not cover health institutions.

The military said it was altering the limits of a designated humanitarian zone in coastal Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, to keep civilians out of areas of conflict with Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists.

According to the Gaza Civil Emergency Services, Israel’s latest directives reduced the humanitarian-designated regions in the south and center, where 1.7 million Palestinians were hiding, to 48 square kilometers from 65 square kilometers previously.

The Palestinians, the United Nations, and international assistance organizations have all stated that Gaza has no safe havens remaining.

Health authorities at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis advised citizens to give blood on Monday due to the significant number of casualties being transported to the medical center.

“A family, including children, were all torn to pieces while they were sleeping,” claimed one guy who came at the hospital in an ambulance carrying the dead.

Israel has pledged to eliminate Hamas after terrorists murdered 1,200 people and abducted over 250 prisoners in a cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli estimates.

As of Monday, Israel’s retaliatory attack had killed at least 39,006 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.

A cease-fire initiative sponsored by Qatar and Egypt and supported by the United States has so far failed due to differences over parameters among the combatants, who blame each other for the standoff.