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Almost 85 percent of Khan Younis destroyed by Israeli attacks

Khan Younis’s mayor says 85 percent of the governorate is destroyed by Israeli attacks.

He added that approximately 400,000 tonnes of rubble must be removed from the city’s streets, and that 300km (about 200 miles) of Khan Younis’s water networks have been destroyed.

He also stated that 75 percent of the city’s sewage network has been destroyed.


Palestinians return to destroyed buildings in Khan Younis


Displaced Palestinians walk with their belongings past destroyed buildings as they return to their homes in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip



GHF site dismantled as part of Israeli army withdrawal

I’m now at the Netzarim Corridor, very close to one of the sites of the GFH. This site was meant to deliver much-needed humanitarian supplies, but is now part of the barren landscape after being dismantled.

The organisation was heavily criticised for its controversial way of delivering food supplies, and we understand that hundreds of Palestinians have been killed near the site here.

Before, this used to be a beautiful landscape full of olive trees. But it had been under the control of the Israeli military for almost two years. Many bodies were retrieved from this location by civil defence and emergency services.

Now the Israeli military has completely withdrawn from the area, giving Palestinians the freedom to move between northern and southern Gaza.