Palestinian family flee the latest Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Khan Younis

Thousands of Palestinians in the southern city of Khan Younis were forced to escape to other parts of the enclave on Thursday.

While a handful had transportation, many individuals were spotted walking with what they could carry after the Israeli military ordered another mass evacuation.

They were carrying necessary things including small gas cylinders, mattresses, tents, backpacks, blankets, and plastic water containers and buckets.

Father Ghazi Abu Daka, cradling a tiny infant, stated that he and his family have been displaced four times from the eastern Khan Younis neighborhood.

“Every day, there is battle. Every day, rockets hit us. There are no safe areas in the eastern region.

We’re on the streets and don’t know where to go,” he explained.

People in the eastern areas fled to safer locations. However, there is no safe place. We are looking for a place to shelter our children.”
Another evacuee, Yasser Abu Alyan, stated that he has been moved six times from the Beni Seheila neighborhood to the east of Khan Younis.

He claimed to have taken nothing with him but his two young daughters, and that “everything is gone.”

This latest evacuation order applies to huge communities in and surrounding Khan Younis, which was heavily targeted by air and ground strikes early this year.

The Israeli army says it intends to conduct new operations in response to Palestinian rocket firing.

According to the United Nations, around 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million people are internally displaced, many of whom have relocated many times.

Local officials estimate that the continuous conflict has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians.
The continuing war was sparked by the Palestinian group Hamas’ 7 October raid on southern Israel, in which militants killed 1,200 people and kidnapped approximately 250.