![]() It's the latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by an unprecedented incursion of Hamas militants and other Palestinian militant groups from Gaza into neighboring southern Israel on Oct. "What is happening to us is not war on the resistance, but a war on people, a war on citizens." "They want people to die," Alyan said of the Israeli military's additional evacuation orders. More than 17,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces there since the war began two months ago, according to figures released by Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and the Hamas government media office. "Two days ago, they dropped papers from the sky on Khan Yunis saying that we must evacuate and head to the south, meaning where should we go?"Īlyan and his family are among the more than 1.8 million people who are internally displaced in Gaza - about 80% of the population - amid Israel's ongoing war against the territory's militant rulers, Hamas, according to data from the United Nations. "There's nowhere left to go," Alyan told ABC News on Dec. He said they left their home in Gaza City and traveled south on foot to Khan Yunis, some 15 miles away, where they sheltered in a school with scores of other displaced families.īut Khan Yunis, like other areas in southern Gaza where civilians were told to go, is no longer safe as the Israeli military expands its offensive across the entire 140-square-mile enclave. ![]() ![]() LONDON and GAZA - Muhammad Alyan said he and his family were forced to flee the northern Gaza Strip last month, heeding evacuation orders by the Israeli military.
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