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‘We have nothing to lose now,’ Khan Younis resident says

Palestinians who remain in the Khan Younis neighbourhoods that Israel ordered to be evacuated say they had no other option.

The UN estimated that up to 250,000 people are impacted by Monday’s Israeli military order for civilians to leave al-Qarara, Bani Suhaila and other localities near Gaza’s second largest city of Khan Younis.

Midday temperatures in Bani Suhaila rose above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), and there is no shelter, Ahmed al-Najjar, a 26-year-old resident of the neighbourhood, told AFP.

He said his family fled on Monday but then decided to return home to brave any new fighting there. “We did not know where we would go, and we do not have enough money to buy a new tent,” al-Najjar said.

He added: “We had to spend the night on the street and that has increased our stress. This morning, we decided to go home again. There is nowhere else. “Whatever happens, happens. We have nothing to lose now.”

‘No rest in this barbaric war’: Khan Younis resident

People who have stayed in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis despite the Israeli army warning that part of it needed to be evacuated say they are tired of being displaced over nine months of war.

Bakri Bakri, 39, lay on the ground among hundreds of other people on a scrap of land in the city. He told the AFP news agency: “There is no room for us or any of the displaced. … We just hope a solution can be found.”

Abdullah Muhareb said his family had already fled their home in the al-Fokhari district once because of a previous Israeli warning of an impending assault.

“We suffered a lot and lived for a long time in the tent city in al-Mawasi” on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast until the army withdrew from Khan Younis, the 25-year-old told to AFP.

“Then we went home again,” he said. “There was a lot of damage because of the bombing, but we arranged it like a home, and we could rest. But there is no rest in this barbaric war.”

He added: “We have left again, and we do not know where to go. We went back to our place in al-Mawasi, but we could not find it because there are so many displaced.” “We slept in the street without shelter, without food, without water.”

_{Displaced Palestinians leave an area in eastern Khan Younis}