STORY: Tens of thousands have been forced to flee areas of Gaza's Khan Younis after Israeli authorities expanded evacuation orders overnight.
The Israeli military said it was attacking militants from the Hamas group who were using the areas to stage attacks and fire rockets.
An announcement on X and sent to residents' phones said they should evacuate immediately "for your own safety" to a newly created humanitarian zone.
But Palestinian and U.N. officials say there are no safe areas in the enclave.
It's a view echoed by Oum Ayman Mekdad as she fled on Sunday (August 11).
"Look at the destruction, everyone has left their tents and the situation is really bad. Where are the countries? Why they leave us alone like that? The children who are being torn to pieces are not to blame, and ruin everywhere."
Gazans also complain they've been forced to move multiple times.
This man is saying it's the 12th time he's had to flee since October 7.
That was the day Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages according to Israeli tallies.
Since then, nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive, the Gaza health ministry says.
In Khan Younis, the evacuation order covered districts in the center, east and west.
That makes it one of the largest such orders in the 10-month old conflict, and comes just two days after tanks returned to the east of the city.
Later on Sunday, an Israeli airstrike near the market at the center of the city killed four Palestinians and wounded several others, medics said.
Lines of smoke rose from areas where Israeli planes carried attacks in the eastern and western parts of Khan Younis.
Residents said two multi-floor buildings were bombed.
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The evacuation order also follows the killing of at least 90 people - according to Gaza's civil defense service - in an Israeli airstrike on a school where displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
That incident on Saturday (October 10) prompted international outcry.
The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command post, killing 19.
The two groups rejected that claim which they said was being used as a pretext.
