The Israeli army launched strikes on the outskirts of Khan Younis town in the southern Gaza Strip, causing deaths and injuries.
The Palestinian official Wafa news agency quoted local sources as saying that the Israeli army launched heavy artillery strikes on eastern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis, forcing Palestinians to flee their neighbourhoods under fire and threats.
The Israeli army forced thousands of displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents around the Gaza European Hospital in eastern Khan Younis to leave their homes under shelling.
The Gaza Health Ministry has not yet confirmed the number of casualties.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued airstrikes and artillery shelling across the Gaza Strip, including heavy shelling of the Shejaiya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Medical sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday that medical teams moved several patients and wounded from Gaza’s European Hospital to Nasser Hospital in the centre of Khan Younis.
They added that the hospital’s technical teams also moved some medical devices and equipment, fearing that they would be damaged in the event of an Israeli army raid on the hospital.
Gaza in ruins after the Israeli offensive
Israel, which has ignored a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, has been internationally condemned for its ongoing brutal offensive on Gaza since the Palestinian group Hamas attacked on October 7 2023.
Since then, at least 37,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and some 87,060 others have been injured, according to local health authorities.
Eight months into Israel’s war, vast parts of Gaza lie in ruins under a brutal blockade that deprives people of food, clean water and medicine.
Israel has been accused of genocide by the UN International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling orders it to immediately halt its military operation in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians were sheltering from the war before it was seized on May 6.
Mobilisation protests
Meanwhile, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with Israeli police in the centre of Jerusalem on Sunday during a protest against a Supreme Court ruling to begin military conscription.
Last week’s landmark ruling ordering the government to begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox men could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition while Israel wages war in Gaza.
Tens of thousands of men gathered for a rally in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood to protest the order. But after nightfall, the crowd moved towards the centre of Jerusalem and turned violent.
