As the Hamas-Israel war continues, health authorities said an Israeli strike on Gaza killed at least 80 Palestinians.
Israel widens evacuation orders in southern Gaza after deadly strike on school-turned-shelter
Palestinian officials said at least 80 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school being used as a shelter.
Palestinian officials said at least 80 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school being used as a shelter.
Palestinian officials said at least 80 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school being used as a shelter.
Palestinian officials said at least 80 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school being used as a shelter.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday, a day after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. The airstrike was one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month war.
Israel has repeatedly ordered mass evacuations as its troops return to heavily destroyed areas where they previously battled Palestinian militants. The vast majority of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been displaced, often multiple times, in the besieged territory 25 miles (40 kilometers) long by about 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide.
The latest evacuation orders apply to areas of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, including part of an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone from which the military said rockets had been fired. Israel accuses Hamas and other militants of hiding among civilians and launching attacks from residential areas.
The humanitarian zone has steadily shrunk during the war with the various evacuation orders. Hundreds of thousands of people have crammed into squalid tent camps with few public services or sought shelter in schools, though the United Nations says hundreds of those have been directly hit or damaged.
