A UN official is warning 1000’s of individuals could possibly be displaced as Israel ordered Palestinians to flee Khan Younis within the Gaza Strip.
Briefing reporters on Wednesday from Jerusalem, Andrea De Domenico, Head of Workplace for UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) within the Occupied Palestinian Territory mentioned his company was intently monitoring the state of affairs.
“We have now seen, fixed stream of individuals shifting out. And it’s totally tough for us to be on the bottom all over the place making an attempt to watch the completely different patterns and be extra exact when it comes to the variety of those that at the moment are shifting,” De Domenico mentioned.
The Israeli military ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from a lot of Khan Younis on Monday, an indication that troops are prone to launch a brand new floor assault into the Gaza Strip’s second-largest metropolis.
The order suggests Khan Younis would be the newest goal of Israel’s raids into elements of Gaza it had beforehand invaded within the battle, because it pursues regrouping Hamas militants.
A lot of Khan Younis was destroyed in a protracted assault earlier this 12 months, however giant numbers of Palestinians had moved again to flee one other Israeli offensive in Gaza’s southernmost metropolis, Rafah.
Extra sources • AP