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Israel’s military has widened its evacuation orders in and around Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
In a statement issued early Sunday, it urged residents of half a dozen more areas in the city to leave immediately for their safety.
The military’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said they should move to “well-known IDP (internally displaced person) shelters” west of the city, including south toward Rafah.
He also posted a map highlighting the areas.
Residents quoted by the Reuters news agency said the military also dropped leaflets ordering them to move south to Rafah or to a coastal area in the southwest.
Many of the enclave’s 2.3 million people are in the south after Israeli forces ordered them to leave the north at the start of the war.
Heavy bombardments were reported overnight around Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets and helicopters “struck terror targets” in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including “terror tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons storage facilities.”
It also said an armed drone guided by ground troops had eliminated five Hamas terrorists.
The militant Islamist group Hamas, which governs Gaza, is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the US, Germany and others.
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