CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the majority of them in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the territory, according to doctors.
The Israeli army, for its part, ordered new evacuations in the south of the territory.
Eight people were killed in a series of strikes in Beit Lahiya, one of two towns where the army has operated since October, while four others were killed elsewhere in Gaza City, medics said.
Subsequently, an airstrike killed two people and injured others in Djabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
Another air attack, on the Al Falah school, sheltering displaced families in the Gaza suburb of Zeïtoun, killed six people and injured others, according to doctors, while in Rafah, in the extreme south, three women were killed by Israeli drone fire, they added.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said its operations in Djabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun had been interrupted for almost four weeks due to Israeli attacks on its teams and fuel shortages.
Since the start of the war, 88 members of the civilian emergency service have been killed, 304 injured and 21 are detained by Israel.
The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of residents of the northern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, due to rocket fire from these areas. These orders caused the hasty exodus of families, especially before dawn, towards the west.
“For your own safety, you must evacuate the area immediately and move to the humanitarian zone,” the Israeli army said in a message on X.
Palestinian and United Nations officials say there are no safe areas in the enclave. Most of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have been internally displaced, some up to ten times since the war began last year.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, French version by Elena Smirnova, edited by Kate Entringer)
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