The UN said Tuesday that it estimated 150,000 Palestinians have fled eastern Khan Younis since Israel launched its new assault on the southern Gaza Strip city on Monday.
Israel’s evacuation order for the new Khan Younis offensive covered areas previously declared so-called “safe zones,” which Israel has frequently bombed. An official from the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, told BBC that 80% of Gaza “has been placed under evacuation orders or designated as no-go zones by the Israeli military.”
The Israeli military said it launched the new offensive because Hamas had reconstituted itself in the area. The IDF has re-invaded Khan Younis and other cities it has completely destroyed multiple times.
The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis has been overwhelmed with injured Palestinians since Israel launched the new assault. Many Palestinians who fled the offensive are taking shelter in the hospital.
Rabah Abdul Ghafour, a 37-year-old sheltering at the hospital, told BBC that he’d been displaced 12 times since October 7. Another Palestinian, Rawan al-Brim, 22, described the difficulties she’s had with her baby.
“We slept in the outer yard without a mattress or a blanket. My four-month-old daughter was born during the war. My breast milk has dried up and I can’t find any milk to satisfy her hunger. My baby screams from hunger all night,” said al-Brim, who arrived at the hospital with her family on Monday.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that 84 Palestinians had been killed in the Strip in the previous 24-hour period, while another 329 were injured. The ministry also said the death toll since October 7 has reached 39,090, a number that doesn’t include the estimated 10,000 Palestinians who are missing and believed to be dead or dying under the rubble. Gaza’s Media office said 16,000 children have been killed by Israeli forces.
The “Chosen People”, ahem…. Oye vey…
I oft times am so angry at their lack of humanity (Israel), it causes me to question the holy father…..
The "chosen people" wrote the book on "mowing the lawn" (genocide). We call it the Old Testament.
"They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself. Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded." Joshua 11:11-23
Israel is so nice and smart. Turns "Cities" into "Refugee Camps," calls them "Safe Zones," makes them "Civilian Killing Zones," while everyone is avoiding or even thinking of the correct term, "Death Camps." So impressive. Even Satan is taking notes.
Another massacre, another injustice –yet, I can smell my home in Palestine. It was the indigenous inhabitants of the Holy Land chronicling obscenities like these that paved the way for Saladin to rise up from the ranks and liberate Jerusalem. For us 1187 feels like yesterday. We no longer conjure up Saladin from his grave to liberate us. Every child born in this tragedy is a Saladin. The West has a short and faulty memory.
In future, any lecturing by the US government on "terrorism", "human rights" or "the rule of law" is going to ring awfully hollow around the world.
As if it didn’t already.
Our government’s backing of the systematic destruction of the Gaza Ghetto is especially horrific.
The Israeli military said it launched the new offensive because Hamas had reconstituted itself in the area. The IDF has re-invaded Khan Younis and other cities it has completely destroyed multiple times.
The go to excuse that never gets old. And by saying Hamas "had reconstituted itself" means that there are men there of military age ( 1 to 80) that could be Hamas. Which means that the entire strip remains open to Israel killing with impunity. Terrorism at its finest.