A Palestinian family rests is the shade of a vehicle parked near the rubble of a building, as thousands of Palestinians who fled following the Israeli army's temporary evacuation order for parts of Khan Younis arrive in an another area of the southern Gaza Strip city on July 23, 2024 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in four days, the United Nations says, after an IDF operation to extract bodies of hostages killed and seized by Hamas on October 7.
Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Younis area have fueled “new waves of internal displacement across Gaza,” the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, says.
It says “about 182,000 people” have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Younis between Monday and Thursday, and hundreds are “stranded in eastern Khan Younis.”
The IDF on Monday ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern city, announcing its forces would “forcefully operate” there, including in an area previously declared a safe humanitarian zone.
IDF troops are seen at the entrance to a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis where the bodies of five Israeli hostages were held, July 24, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
On Wednesday, IDF troops recovered five bodies of captives seized during Hamas’s October 7 attack and brought them back home to Israel.
The IDF said this morning that its forces had “eliminated approximately 100 terrorists” in the city this week.
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