Israel again warned Palestinians in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip to leave the town and head west for safety. They are also closer to humanitarian aid distribution centers there.
“We are asking people to leave. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want civilians to get caught in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told the North American television channel MSNBC. Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, has more than 400,000 inhabitants.In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled from the north to the south.
Hospital director: 26 killed in airstrike in Khan Yunis
An airstrike in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, killed 26 people, according to the director of a Palestinian hospital. The head of Nasser Hospital in Chan Junis told AFP news agency today that 23 people were seriously injured in the attack on three residential buildings in Hamad district.
Israeli military: weapons and ammunition found in kindergarten
According to their own statements, the Israeli armed forces found weapons and ammunition in a kindergarten and a primary school in the Gaza Strip. The military announced today on the X news platform (Twitter) that tank rifles, mortars and other weapons were seized during the operation in the north of the isolated coastal strip.
“Kindergartens should keep toys, not deadly weapons,” the statement said. A pile of mortar grenades can be seen in a video, and several anti-tank rifles, assault rifles, ammunition and hand grenades in a photo.
Red Crescent: Five dead in attack on refugee camp
Five people died and two others were injured in an attack on a building in the Balata refugee camp, in the north of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. The camp administration in Nablus said an airstrike hit the local headquarters of the Fatah movement at the camp overnight. The Israeli military said it was investigating the reports.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency that the attack came from a drone – the information could not be confirmed. Around 24,000 people live in the Balata refugee camp. Several armed Palestinian groups are also represented there.