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IDF reissues wide evacuation warning for entire Rafah, Khan Younis area in south Gaza
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The IDF reissues a wide evacuation warning for the entire Rafah and Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip, ahead of a planned major ground offensive.
The military calls for Palestinians residing in areas marked on a map in red to evacuate westward toward the Mawasi area on the coast, which Israel is set to declare as a “safer zone.”
“The IDF will launch an unprecedented attack to destroy the capabilities of terror organizations [in this area],” says the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee.
He says that the evacuated area is considered “a dangerous combat zone.” The evacuation warning does not include the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals, Adraee adds.
On March 31, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for all of Rafah and the southern part of Khan Younis, and on May 19, ordered the rest of Khan Younis to also evacuate.
The latest order covers the same areas previously ordered to be evacuated.
#عاجل ‼️ الى سكان محافظة خانيونس، بني سهيلا، عبسان والقرارة
⭕️جيش الدفاع يشن هجوماً غير مسبوق لتدمير قدرات المنظمات الإرهابية
⭕️تواصل المنظمات الإرهابية اطلاق قذائف صاروخية من مناطقكم
⭕️تعتبر منطقة محافظة خان يونس منطقة قتال خطيرة تم تحذيرها عدة مرات
????أخلوا فوراً غرباً الى منطقة… pic.twitter.com/6T7BCf8ikD— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) May 26, 2025
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