The occupation army continued its raids and artillery shelling of the Gaza Strip, intensifying its operations and attacks on towns in the southern part of the Strip, which forced Palestinian families to flee and move to other areas.

The occupation forces launched intensive raids on the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in martyrs and wounded.

These attacks come after the occupation army dropped leaflets ordering residents and displaced persons in eastern Khan Yunis to evacuate the area, which has witnessed repeated waves of fighting.

Waves of displacement

Since yesterday, Thursday, groups of displaced people have set off in buses and private cars to the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex and the Al-Mawasi area, which the occupation claims are among the safe areas in the Strip.

11 Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured as a result of the occupation targeting the Al-Mawasi and Al-Tahlia areas in the center of Khan Yunis.

Al-Mawasi is a sandy area that extends along the coast, and it has been bombed several times in recent months, despite the occupation army’s claims that it is safe.

Four Palestinians were killed in a bombing that targeted a car near the Sofa crossing in the Al-Amur area, east of Khan Yunis.

The occupation army announced that the 98th Division had begun a new military operation in Khan Yunis, targeting several areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

Earlier, the bodies of two dead, one of whom was a child, were recovered as a result of the shelling that targeted the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis.

He added that the raids and gunfire from Israeli aircraft and vehicles do not stop throughout the day in Khan Yunis.

Rafah raids

In the far south of the Strip, the areas of Tel al-Sultan, al-Baraksat, the town of Yebna, and al-Shabura in the city of Rafah were subjected to continuous Israeli bombardment, which resulted in the destruction of many residential buildings.

For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) revealed that 63% of buildings in the Gaza Strip were assessed as destroyed or severely damaged.

The report explained that additional evacuation orders were issued between August 2 and 7, including an evacuation order issued on August 5 warning residents of parts of Khan Younis and northern Rafah to move immediately to the Al-Mawasi area.

Bombing of houses

In the middle of the Strip, the sound of shelling and the sounds of vehicles moving were heard from the neighboring town of Al-Qarara in Khan Yunis, while our correspondent reported that the occupation army continues to blow up houses in the Al-Maghraqa area amid aerial bombardment.

The Israeli army also expanded a buffer zone between the north and south of the Strip on the Netzarim axis.

Israeli helicopters opened fire west of the new camp in Nuseirat. Six Palestinians were killed in the shelling of two houses in the Nuseirat and Maghazi camps.

The death toll in the central Gaza Strip rose to 27 over the past 24 hours, amid the continued military incursion and shooting in the Prisoners' Towers area west of the Nuseirat camp.

In the latest update from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 39,699 Palestinians, most of them children and women, were killed and 91,722 others were injured since October 7.