At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and over 200 wounded following the launch of a new Israeli assault on eastern Khan Younis, according to health officials in Gaza.
The air attacks and artillery shelling come minutes after the military ordered the evacuation that Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says affects more than 400,000 people.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is travelling to the US, says Israel will dispatch negotiators to restart stalled captive exchange talks on Thursday. He did not specify the delegation’s destination.
At least 39,006 people have been killed and 89,818 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
Home demolitions across West Bank are on the rise: Group
The Good Shepard Collective, a grass-roots organisation that addresses violent and unjust structures in Palestine, has said that “there has been a ramp up in Israeli military operations as a means to depopulate strategic areas of control”.
Since the beginning of this year, it said, Israel has carried out 225 military operations across East Jerusalem and the West Bank alone, destroying 638 structures and displacing 783 people.
“But over the last 90 days, demolitions and displacements have been rapidly increasing. The Year-to-date average for the daily displacement of people is 3.915, while in the previous 90 days, the figure has risen to 6.79,” the group said.
It added that during the last 90 days, there were 130 Israeli military operations. These operations displaced 550 people, including 139 males, 141 females, and 270 children. A total of 329 structures were destroyed over this time.__Al Jazeera
