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.
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.
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What is that now, the third time Gazans have been forced at gunpoint to leave Khan Yunis before the "any child we snipe or bomb here will be counted as a terrorist" death zone switch is turned back on? Very humanitarian, very most moral.
@W3lfareCodGreen2yrs2Y
I was listening to some of the interviews of the people who were evacuating. There are families in there who have moved 20 times. There are many families who have moved at least 10 times.
Yes, you read that right. 400,000 people.
World leaders who continue to allow this should be treated exactly as if they're pulling the triggers themselves.
Because they basically are.
@DinosaurPhilGreen2yrs2Y
I thought I had a grasp on humanity. I thought there were values common to us all- irregardless of religion, beliefs, race, socio-economic background.
I can’t believe I’ve been so naive. I am so ashamed. We are no better than the authoritarian regimes we look down upon.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
What emotions are evoked in you when you hear that civilians, including possibly children, are caught in the crossfire of war?
@9RFG3MN2yrs2Y
I think children should not have to go to war because they are way too young and have no experience with war.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How do you think a community can recover from such a massive and sudden loss of life and the destruction of homes?
@9RFXTFC2yrs2Y
By rebuilting and helping recover a missing people missing
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