GAZA, (PIC)
Tens of thousands of Palestinians faced a new tragedy on Monday evening, after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) issued displacement orders for approximately half of Khan Yunis residents.
Thousands of Gazans rushed to evacuate their destroyed homes and tents following the new displacement orders, gathering in city center’s streets and alleys and in Khan Yunis Hospital square, wondering about where to go next.
Mahmoud Abu Daqqa said, he was displaced at least seven times, moving from one place to another since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, noting that the last displacement was about four days ago when he was forced to leave Al-Muntazah district west of Khan Yunis following the instructions of the IOF.
He told the PIC that he received a voice recording from the IOF asking him to evacuate, so he had to go out quickly without taking anything, revealing that he was then relocated near Nasser Hospital and did not know where he would stay and how he and his family would manage their affairs.
The new displacement orders affected the towns of Khuza’a, Absan, Al-Qarara, Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, as well as the Al-Fakhari area, Al-Manara neighborhood, and Al-Najjar, which are large areas, almost at half of Khan Yunis.
Early December 2023, the IOF invaded Khan Yunis and remained there for nearly five months, during which thousands of civilians were killed and more than 70% of the governorate’s buildings, villages and infrastructure were destroyed.
Um Muhammad Al-Najjar said crying, “Is it insufficient to be under bombardment, siege, and hunger? We have been displaced once after another. Where will we go, next? We live in worn tents and we have now been left with no place to install our tents on. They want to deprive us of stability and safety.”
Other families chose to remain in their displacement places in the same targeted areas.
Salama Amer said, “Previously, I was displaced 10 times, and I no longer have energy for more, I will not leave my tent, because I do not have any money to transfer my few belongings. I will remain here along with my children, even if we could be killed.”
Hundreds of thousands of residents and displaced people returned to the various neighborhoods of Khan Yunis after the IOF, on May 7, invaded Rafah from which more than 1.5 million people were forcibly displaced.
Just weeks after people had been forced to return to the destroyed Khan Yunis, the IOF issued new evacuation orders, forcing 250,000 people to displace, despite the fact that there is no safe place in Gaza, UNRWA said.
The human rights researcher, Muhammad Sabah, told the PIC that Israel adopts a systematic policy of targeting civilian people of the Gaza Strip wherever they are, to deprive them of stability, even if it is temporary in the displacement centers and shelters.
