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Displaced Palestinians from the eastern part of Khan Yunis, prepare to cook bread at a temporary camp set up in the grounds of a cemetery in the western part of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday.

Khan Yunis fighting displaces 180,000 Gazans in four days: UN

More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in four days, the UN said yesterday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives’ bodies from the area.Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Yunis area, more than nine months into the Israeli war on Gaza, have fuelled “new waves of internal displacement across Gaza”, said the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.It said “about 182,000 people” have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Yunis between Monday and Thursday, and hundreds are “stranded in eastern Khan Yunis”.The Israeli military 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.Witnesses and rescuers said heavy battles continued around eastern Khan Yunis yesterday. The Nasser Hospital said 26 bodies were brought to the medical site.Israel’s offensive has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.According to UN figures, the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.4mn people have been displaced at least once by the fighting.Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden spoke yesterday with Jordan’s King Abdullah, discussing the push to reach a ceasefire in the devastating Gaza conflict, the two countries said.“The president updated King Abdullah on his ongoing efforts to secure a hostage release and ceasefire deal, and preparations for a surge in humanitarian assistance during a ceasefire period,” the White House said in a statement.Jordan’s royal court confirmed the call, saying that King Abdullah “stressed the need to end the war on Gaza immediately and ensure the flow of sufficient aid through all crossings, while guaranteeing its delivery to civilians across the Strip without delay or hindrance.”


A distressed Palestinian woman and boy arrive at the Nasser hospital after Israeli forces targeted the northeastern district of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday.

Homes destroyed in new attacks on Khan Younis

Israeli forces carried out new raids in the Gaza Strip yesterday.The latest Israeli attacks destroyed homes in towns east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and thousands of people were forced to head west to seek shelter, residents said.The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said it had received distress calls from residents trapped in their homes in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, but were unable to reach the town.Medics later said two Palestinians had been killed in an airstrike on Bani Suhaila.Gaza health officials said Israeli military strikes in the past 24 hours had killed at least 55 people, the latest casualties in a war that health authorities in the enclave say has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians.Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 39,090 reported fatalities, with an additional 90,147 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.Residents said they had been ordered to head west towards a designated humanitarian area but that the area was now unsafe. The Israeli military issued the evacuation orders on social media, and some residents received orders to leave by phone.Israeli forces also mounted airstrikes on several areas of central and northern Gaza, including one on Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza which health officials said killed nine people.In the southern area of Rafah, the military said it engaged in close-quarter combat with militants.Some Palestinians who gathered at a hospital in Khan Younis before funerals criticised the United States, Israel’s most important international ally, for welcoming Netanyahu.

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