The Israeli army surrounds this Wednesday the large town of Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where some of the most intense fighting is raging in two months of war. On foot, on motorbikes, crammed into carts or their luggage piled on the roofs of their cars, thousands of civilians continue to flee towards the south, cornered in an increasingly cramped area near the closed border with Egypt. and faced with a catastrophic humanitarian situation.
“We have secured many Hamas strongholds in the northern Gaza Strip, and we are now carrying out operations against its strongholds in the south,” said Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi. “Our forces find weapons in almost every building and house, terrorists in many houses and confront them,” he added.