I'm so tired. We've been forced to move earlier and the family has been split up, and it hasn't helped. My sibling died in a "safe" zone, after they bombed it, says a Palestinian aid worker in al-Mawasi in a press release from the UN agency.
According to IOM's figures, nearly 180,000 people have been driven from their homes between May 15 and 25, in connection with Israel launching a new "comprehensive" offensive in Gaza, which they claim is targeted against terrorist-stamped Hamas.
Israel has, among other things, attacked tents in the supposedly safe zone of al-Mawasi, school buildings housing internally displaced persons in Gaza City, and intensified raids against northern Gaza and eastern Khan Yunis, notes IOM.
Since Israel broke a fragile ceasefire with Hamas on March 18, nearly 616,000 people have been forced to flee in Gaza. Many are forced to seek new locations multiple times.
On Monday, the Israeli military ordered an evacuation of Khan Yunis and its surroundings ahead of an impending attack said to be unprecedented. The residents were then urged to head west to the sand dunes in al-Mawasi.
