CONFLICT
Israel orders more Gaza evacuations after school shelter attack
August 12, 2024 - Israel has expanded evacuation orders in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in preparation for another raid on areas from which it says Hamas fighters are operating.
On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a school where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in Gaza City killed at least 80 people, according to the civil defence service, prompting an international outcry.
The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant command post, an allegation the two groups rejected as a pretext, and killed 19 militants.
In Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, the evacuation instruction covered districts in the centre, east and west, making it one of the largest such orders in the 10-month-old conflict, two days after tanks returned to the east of the city, Reuters said.