IDF calls on Gazans to evacuate new Khan Younis neighborhoods ahead of expected operation

The IDF renews its calls to Palestinians in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip to evacuate to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone.

In early July, the IDF ordered Palestinians in eastern Khan Younis to evacuate, before carrying out an operation there. The military has since withdrawn.

Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, publishes a list of the zones that need to be evacuated alongside the latest announcement, which include the Khan Younis suburbs of al-Qarara and Bani Suheila, the Abasan neighborhoods, the town of Khuza’a.

Adraee says that the IDF will “forcefully operate” against terror groups in the Khan Younis area.

Some 1.9 million Palestinians of the 2.3 million Gazan population are currently in the humanitarian zone, located in the al-Mawasi area on the Strip’s coast, western neighborhoods of Khan Younis, and central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.

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— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 8, 2024