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Israel orders Palestinians to leave from southern, southeastern parts of Khan Younis

The Israeli military has issued a new order for Palestinians to leave the southern and southeastern parts of Khan Younis in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary in Deir el-Balah.

She said the announcement affects the neighbourhoods of Jurat al-Lot, al-Manara, Maan, Kizan, Kizan Abu Rashuan, al-Najjar, as-Salam, and al-Hashash.

The residents of these areas were warned that “any presence of civilians in these areas is dangerous and of high risk”, she said.

It was not clear where people were expected to flee, as there is no safe place left in the enclave.

Earlier this month, the United Nations said more than 86 percent of Gaza was already affected by Israel’s so-called evacuation orders, with most people asked to live in small “safe zones” that repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.



Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on two schools in Gaza City

The Palestinian Media Center and our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that 25 Palestinians have been killed and many others injured in Israeli strikes on Hassan Salameh and Al Nasr schools in Gaza City.

Israeli military says attacks on schools targeted Hamas fighters

In its latest war update, the Israeli military says the “schools were used by Hamas’s Al-Furqan Battalion as a hiding place for its terrorist operatives and as command centres used to plan and execute attacks”.

At least 25 Palestinians have been reported killed in the strikes on the two schools, which were sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

Majority of casualties in school bombings are children: Palestinian Civil Defence

Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, says the Israeli forces have committed “a massacre in every sense of the word” by bombing the Al Nasr and Hassan Salama schools.

He described the scenes of the attacks as “difficult and tragic” with children accounting for 80 percent of those killed and wounded.


An injured child walks after receiving treatment at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City following Israeli bombardment on the Hassan Salameh and Al Nassr schools

Israeli attacks on Gaza City schools come without any prior warning

What we know so far is that these two schools have been severely damaged to the point where people have started to evacuate the entire area, seeking safety and protection elsewhere.

This is the same exact scenario that we’ve seen in the past few days.

What we know for a fact right now is that there is a concentration of attacks on evacuation centres. What’s really concerning is that the Israeli military is not giving any prior warning to people inside.

These evacuation centres are mainly schools, as they are the only large spaces available right now for a significant number of displaced people.

This is happening in an unpredictable way, causing severe casualties and increasing the trauma of a population already displaced in some cases up to five, six or seven times across the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Many Palestinians ‘still under the rubble’ of two schools


Palestinian rescuers extinguish a fire in a damaged building following Israeli bombardment that hit a school complex in the north of Gaza City on August 3

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) official Nebal Farsakh, who was at the scene of the Israeli strikes on two schools in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that its ambulance teams managed to evacuate several Palestinians who were wounded but “many are still missing under the rubble”.

She described “horrific scenes” with “women screaming” as they looked for their children in the rubble.

“This attack is again another proof that there is no safe place in Gaza. These two schools are housing displaced civilians who have been forced to leave multiple times, and now even they have been forced to flee another time after this attack,” she said.

“Israel has been systematically targeting civilians.”

Death toll rises to 30 after Israeli attacks on two Gaza City schools

At least 30 bodies have been recovered from the al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools after Israeli air attacks, according to the Gaza’s Civil Defence.

The rescue service said on Telegram that about 16 displaced people were still missing under the rubble of the al-Nasr school.