THE Israeli army today issued new orders to evacuate its areas Khan Yunisexpanding his business in and around this city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have already been displaced for days.

The UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced yesterday, Friday, that over 180,000 people have already been displaced to escape the fighting in Khan Yunis since Monday, when a new Israeli army operation was launched in the area, following the discovery of the bodies of five hostages who had been killed in an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7.

The Israeli military on Monday ordered the evacuation of parts of Khan Younis, including an area previously declared a safe humanitarian zone. The Israeli military said it launched the operation to end rocket fire from the area into Israel.

On Wednesday, the Israeli army conducted a rescue operation in Khan Yunis and recovered the bodies of the five hostages, including two reservists and two conscripts.

Of the 251 people kidnapped during the October 7 attack by its militants Hamas on Israeli soil, 111 are still being held in the Gaza Strip and of those 39 are dead, according to the Israeli military.

Today, the army ordered residents of several districts of Khan Younis to “temporarily move to the humanitarian zone of Al Mawasi“, which has undergone adjustments, the second of its kind in a week, the Israeli military said.

The new evacuation orders have resulted in a narrowing of the humanitarian zone, forcing tens of thousands of people to live in cramped makeshift tents, observers say.

Dozens of people have lost their lives in Khan Younis since Monday.

In recent months the Israeli army has returned to its territories Gaza Strip where he previously said there were no more fighters from Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement Israel vowed to destroy after the unprecedented attack on October 7 that killed 1,197 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count that relied on official Israeli data.

In retaliation, Israel launched an offensive against Hamas in Gaza, in which at least 39,258 people have been killed and 90,589 injured in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to figures from the Health Ministry of the Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority. enclave, which does not specify the number of civilians and the number of militants killed.