The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have called this Saturday to the population of several neighborhoods in southern Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, to evacuate the areaclaiming that the presence of Hamas’s “terrorist infrastructure” has turned the enclave into a “dangerous” place and that the Israeli army will “act vigorously” against these targets. It has threatened to “operate with force in the area”, where 180,000 civilians are forced to leave the area.

This “early” warning “is carried out in order to reduce damage to the civilian population and keep them away from the combat zone,” the IDF said in a post on the social network X in which they asked civilians affected by the warning to go “to the adapted humanitarian space in Al Mawasi”.

The Israeli Armed Forces have justified their decision on the basis of “i“precise intelligence information” which reveal that “the terrorist organization Hamas has located terrorist infrastructures in an area defined as a humanitarian space” and “due to the numerous acts of terrorism and the launching of anti-aircraft missiles against the State of Israel from the southern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis.”

The IDF will therefore continue to act against the Hamas terrorist organisation, which uses Gaza residents as human shields for its terrorist activities and infrastructure, the IDF said in a statement on Friday after Israeli forces claimed that “close to 100 terrorists” had been killed in the new offensive launched on Monday against the city of Khan Yunis, arguing that the Islamic Resistance Movement was regrouping in the area three months after the military’s withdrawal.

In this context, there have been more than 190,000 displaced people in Khan Yunis and Deir al Balah in just four and a half days due to the actions of the Israeli Armed Forces, according to data provided this Friday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).