Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ bombarded by Israel

Israeli attacks in southern Gaza and evacuation order force thousands of displaced Palestinians to flee.

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The Israeli military’s evacuation order this week for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, affected about 250,000 people, according to the United Nations.

Displaced families ordered out of eastern Khan Younis have struggled to find places to live in overcrowded shelters and open areas in the western parts of the city. Wednesday’s air strike hit an area that also includes a school-turned-shelter for displaced people, many of whom are living in makeshift tents.

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Andrea De Domenico, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories, said Gaza is “the only place in the world where people cannot find a safe refuge, and can’t leave the front line”. Even in so-called safe areas there are bombings, he told reporters on Wednesday.

An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family hours after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved to the Israeli-designated safe zone.

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