The Israeli army on Friday called on residents in the north of Khan Younis and in the east of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to flee before a new military operation there begins, following rocket and mortar firing from the area toward Israel.
“The Hamas terrorist organization has established terrorist infrastructure in an area defined as a Humanitarian Area,” the army said on Telegram.
It told area residents, via leaflets, text messages, phone calls and media reports in Arabic, to move to a humanitarian zone whose borders have been redrawn.
The army said the Palestinian Islamist Hamas organization had fired rockets toward Israel from Khan Younis on Thursday.
It said it was giving advance warning to civilians “to mitigate harm to the civilian population and to enable civilians to move away from the combat zone.”
Khan Younis is located in the southern Gaza Strip, Deir al-Balah in the centre of the area. The humanitarian zone, which stretches between the two locations in the west of the Gaza Strip, is currently being adapted, the military added. An army map shows that the area is being reduced in size and that several neighbourhoods are no longer part of the zone.
Fighting in Gaza continues, the army said. The air force attacked more than 30 targets, including military installations, in the coastal area on Thursday.
The war was triggered by the massacre carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups in Israel on October 7. The high number of civilian casualties and the humanitarian catastrophe for the Palestinian civilian population have triggered sharp international criticism of Israel’s actions.
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