[GEO.TV] Earlier today, the Israeli military ordered the immediate evacuation of an area covering some 20 per cent of central and southern Khan Younis City, which was home to more than 111,000 people before Israel’s invasion and now includes 32 shelters housing more than 141,000 people displaced from northern Gaza by the war.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel’s notification of the forced relocation was announced online on Wednesday, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), with Palestinians instructed to move to the already overcrowded neighbourhoods in Rafah, further south.
“The scope of displacement resulting from the order to evacuate is unclear,” the UNOCHA said in its latest Gaza situation report.
UNOCHA also notes that the UN Human Rights Office received reports that Israeli forces had killed at least 11 Palestinian men and injured an unconfirmed number of women and children in a residential building in Gaza City in “what may amount to a war crime”.
“Three related families were sheltering inside this building during the incidents. Initial witness reports circulating through media allege that the men were separated from women and children and were then shot and killed,” according to the UNOCHA. |