Gaza Strip - August 11, 2024

Israeli army expanded evacuation orders on Sunday, forcing residents to leave the Al Jalaa neighborhood of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, which has been reclassified from a "safe humanitarian zone" to a combat zone.

This marks the fourth evacuation order issued by the army this month, following similar orders on the previous Sunday, Monday and Thursday, resulting in the further displacement of residents.
In one community housing over ten thousand, residents are hurriedly packing their belongings and navigating debris-strewn streets after Israeli military aircraft distributed new evacuation orders. The orders declared the area no longer a "humanitarian zone," forcing residents to relocate to a designated "safe zone" several kilometers away.

The relentless and repeated displacements throughout the ten months of conflict have left residents in a continuous state of suffering, prompting calls for the international community to intervene and end the ongoing crisis. Many displaced by this latest order have already been shuffled across the embattled enclave.

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said on X on Sunday that more than 75,000 people have been displaced in the southwest Gaza Strip just in the past few days.

Shotlist:
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - Aug 11, 2024:
1. Various of destroyed buildings, debris, displaced people fleeing;
2. Sky, buildings;
3. Various of people fleeing, destroyed buildings;
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed, displaced resident (full name not given):
"I have been displaced many times—it's not just once or twice, but at least five or six times. Almost as soon as we arrive somewhere, they [the Israeli military] order us to leave. I just arrived here and set up a tent two days ago, and now they are telling us to leave again. I have just arrived here. I have nowhere to go.";
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali, displaced resident (full name not given) (partially overlaid with shot 6):
"We are fleeing every day. We stayed here only ten days before being forced to leave again. We are almost devastated, with no place to go. Our only hope is for the war to end; we don’t ask for anything else. People don't know where to go, and neither do I.";
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6. Displace resident leaning on cane;
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7. Displace people fleeing.

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