The occupation  displaces Palestinians from a large area in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip

Today, the Israeli occupation forces displaced the residents of a large area in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the afflicted Gaza Strip.

Wafa Agency quoted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as saying in a report today: “The Israeli army ordered the immediate evacuation of an area covering about twenty percent of the area of the city of Khan Yunis,” indicating that the scale of displacement that will result from the evacuation order is not clear.

The office stated that more than 111,000 people lived in this area before the occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, and about 141,000 Palestinians have been displaced there since the beginning of the aggression, currently living in 32 camps.

This is not the first time that the occupation has forced the people of the Gaza Strip to flee. Since the beginning of the aggression, more than 1.5 million people have been displaced from Gaza City and the north and center of the Gaza Strip to the south, specifically to Khan Yunis and Rafah, to escape the occupation’s bombing. However, there is no safe place in the Strip, as the bombing affects every inch of it.

The displaced people in the Gaza Strip suffer from tragic conditions, as they lack shelter, food, medicine, and potable water, and they suffer from the spread of epidemics and diseases as a result of the occupation preventing the entry of aid.

The media office in Gaza warned of the spread of famine in the Strip, calling on international institutions and organizations to assume their responsibilities and play their role effectively and truly, and not to collude with the occupation in passing the policy of starvation and thirst against the people of the Strip.

Souha Suleiman