Israel sends tanks back into Khan Younis area; 70 killed after new evacuation order

Due to the Israeli occupation's attacks and massacres in Khan Yunis governorate from the early hours of this morning until now, 70 people have been martyred and more than 200 wounded,

the Gaza health ministry said

We were happily making breakfast for our children, as we had been safe for a month, only to be stunned by shells, warning leaflets and martyrs in the streets,

he told AFPTV

There is clearly tension in the relationship, especially between the White House and the Israeli prime minister,

Cook said in a commentary

Never before has the atmosphere been so fraught,

said Steven Cook, a Middle East specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations

I'll be working very closely with the Israelis and with the Palestinians" to

he said in a public call into his campaign headquarters

Tens of cases are on the floor. We don’t have beds to place patients on ... we are swimming in a pool of blood,

he said

We are tired, we are tired in Gaza, every day our children are martyred, every day, every moment,

said Ahmed Sammour, who lost several relatives in bombings of eastern Khan Younis

Since this morning, the IAF and IDF artillery forces have struck more than 30 terror infrastructure sites in Khan Younis, including in the area from which a projectile was launched toward Nirim in southern Israel earlier today,

the military said

We call upon the international community and the United Nations to urgently intervene to stop the systematic Zionist killing of our people, who are facing a genocide,

the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel

But that happened in a very short period of time, and they started to bombard residential houses. People were inside. Later, the military started to drop leaflets [to order an evacuation] in the eastern areas of Khan Younis,

he said

No one told us to evacuate. They brought four floors crashing down on civilians... and the bodies they could reach, they brought to the refrigerator (morgue),

Sammour added

The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land, including in our eternal capital Jerusalem nor in Judea and Samaria, our historical homeland. No absurd opinion in the Hague can deny this historical truth or the legal right of Israelis to live in their own communities in our ancestral home,

he wrote on X, formerly Twitter

We do not know where we are walking,

said Kholoud Al Dadas, as she clutched her children

We were displaced from the eastern regions, they called us to evacuate, we took our children and left,

Osama Qudeih told the Associated Press

While there are no casualties, our teams had to duck and take cover ... The teams were travelling in clearly marked UN armoured cars and wearing UN vests,

he said, adding

Gaza has not only become a graveyard for children. It has become a graveyard for international law, a shameful stain on the whole international order,

he said

Heavy shooting from the Israeli forces at a UN convoy heading to Gaza City,

he said

In this time of war and uncertainty, it’s important that Israel’s enemies know that America and Israel stand together,

he said, adding

People feel like the Israelis are playing a chess game with them, moving them from one place to another, and no place is safe,

said Khoudary

People did not even have the opportunity to evacuate,

reported Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary from the central city of Deir el-Balah