On Thursday, the Israeli occupation army asked the displaced people in the largest shelter center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, to evacuate the place on foot, giving them until Friday afternoon.

According to local sources, the army warned the displaced people at the UNRWA training center located in Khan Yunis of the necessity of evacuating it on foot, before five o’clock in the afternoon on Friday, local time.

This warning comes a day after Israeli artillery targeted a building in the center, killing 12 displaced people and wounding 75 others, according to a statement by UNRWA.

The occupation army made phone calls with displaced people inside the center, asking them to evacuate.

A number of displaced people who were able to leave the center and arrived in Rafah safely said that they "went out holding their ID cards so that the army could identify them."

They added, "The army set up barriers in the corridors that it said were safe, to conduct security checks for the displaced."

"More than 50 vehicles and tanks also gathered in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa University, the Al-Qadisiyah site, and the UNRWA training center west of Khan Yunis."

Earlier Thursday, the Israeli army dropped paper leaflets on several neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, demanding that their residents evacuate.

The army said in the leaflets: “Residents of the Khan Yunis area in the Al-Nasr, Al-Amal, City Center and Camp neighborhoods, in Blocks 107-112: For your safety, you must move immediately to the humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi, via Al-Bahr Street.”

In a statement, UNRWA said on Thursday, “The violent fighting in/around Khan Yunis, over the past three days, has caused loss of life and damage to the city’s infrastructure, including the largest UNRWA shelter in the southern region of the Strip, the Khan Yunis Training Center.” ".

It explained that, on Wednesday, for the second time in a week, the center was subjected to Israeli bombing, which led to casualties among the displaced people residing inside it.

It indicated that Israel bombed this center despite “its shelter for about 30,000 displaced people, in addition to the clear signs that it is a United Nations facility, while its coordinates were shared with the Israeli authorities, as is the case with other UN facilities.”

It considered the bombing of the center a "clear disregard for the basic rules of war."

The UN agency called for the necessity of "taking all measures to protect civilians."

It added, "Hospitals, clinics, medical teams, and UN facilities must be protected, as is clearly stipulated in international law."

Since last Monday, the Israeli army has launched a series of intense air and artillery raids on Khan Yunis, and in the vicinity of the hospitals located there, amid a ground advance of its vehicles in the southern and western regions of the city, which prompted thousands of Palestinians to flee the city.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army claimed to have “completed the encirclement” of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, announcing that “the 98th Division carried out, over the last 24 hours, a large-scale attack in Khan Yunis.”