28 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza.
28 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza.
Following strikes on two residential areas in Khan Younis, dozens of people are still buried beneath the debris.
Nov. 18, 2023
Israeli airstrikes on two residential locations in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, have resulted in the deaths of at least 28 Palestinians.
Saturday's bombing of a Hamad neighborhood occurred, according to Youmna ElSayed of Al Jazeera, who was reporting from Khan Younis. In addition to killing largely youngsters, the incident also left dozens injured.
Then, she added, another bomb went off, this time targeting a home in Khuza'a, a town east of Khan Younis.
"There have been 28 confirmed deaths, but there are still many injured and dozens under the rubble, particularly in the residential neighborhood of Hamad," ElSayed continued.
According to the AFP news agency, the director of Nasser Medical Complex in the south stated that his facility had 26 dead and 23 seriously injured following the Hamad strike.
After Israel ordered Palestinians to leave the northern Gaza Strip, stating it would be "safer" due to Israeli forces' ground offensive, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians relocated to the southern Gaza Strip.
Currently, two thirds of them are homeless.
The Israeli shelling in the south has also increased in recent weeks.
The largest city in southern Gaza, Khan Younis, has residents in Khuzaa, Abassan, Bani Suheila, and al-Qarara. They claim that Israeli planes dropped hundreds of leaflets advising residents to leave during the night of Wednesday and early on Thursday.
The pamphlets advised people to "evacuate your places of residence immediately and head to known shelters for your safety." "Every home used by terrorists will be targeted, and anyone who is near them or their facilities puts their life in danger."
Israel had earlier ordered Palestinians to transfer to this area for their safety, thus it was unclear where residents of eastern Khan Younis were expected to flee.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aide Mark Regev stated in an interview with a US broadcaster on Friday that the reason they are requesting people to move is because they "don't want to see civilians caught up in the crossfire," alluding to the Israeli army's intentions to attack Hamas in the southern part of Gaza after subduing the northern part.
In order to expel Hamas terrorists from what he claimed to be underground tunnels and bunkers, Regev continued, Israeli troops will need to push into the city. However, he added, there is no such "enormous infrastructure" in the less populated areas to the west.
If they relocate west, "I'm pretty sure that they won't have to move again," he said.
He stated that the western regions are also closer to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, where humanitarian help could be sent "as quickly as possible," and that is why they are requesting that they relocate to a location where there should be tents and a field hospital.
However, Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that as of right now, his organization "does not consider any part of Gaza to be safe."
Israel has been bombarding the beleaguered enclave in the Gaza Strip, which is home to around 2.3 million people, and as a result, more than 12,000 people—5,000 of them children—have died there since October 7.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES AND AL JAZEERA
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