Israel Shares New Gaza Map: 'Evacuate Immediately'
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The Israeli military has ordered Palestinians in Gaza's major southern city of Khan Younis to "evacuate immediately" in the face of an "unprecedented" new offensive from Israel.
The Context
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said over the weekend that it had begun "extensive ground operations" in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, dubbed "Operation Gideon's Chariots."
The IDF said the country's air force had carried out "a preliminary wave of strikes" on more than 670 targets described as belonging to Hamas, a Palestinian militant organization, in the previous week.
Hamas launched attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people. Another 251 people were taken as hostages into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Israel then began an intensive aerial and ground campaign against Hamas in the densely populated area, vowing to dismantle the group's infrastructure and command chain and return the hostages.
The war has devastated the territory, displacing the strip's almost 2 million inhabitants several times and killing more than 53,000 people, according to Hamas-run authorities. This number does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
#عاجل ‼️ الى سكان محافظة خان يونس، بني سهيلا وعبسان
⭕️جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي سوف يشن هجوماً غير مسبوق لتدمير قدرات المنظمات الإرهابية في هذه المنطقة
⭕️عليكم الأخلاء فوراً غرباً الى منطقة المواصي⭕️
⭕️من هذه اللحظة، ستعتبر محافظة خانيونس منطقة قتال خطيرة
⭕️المنظمات الإرهابية جلبت… pic.twitter.com/1yqOLDVTKK — افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) May 19, 2025
What To Know
The IDF will "launch an unprecedented attack to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organizations" in several areas of Khan Younis, Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson, said in a social media post on Monday.
Residents of the city "must evacuate immediately" west, Adraee said. Khan Younis is now "a dangerous combat zone," the spokesperson added.
Adraee shared a map showing where the IDF would concentrate its military push.
Nadav Shoshani, the chief international media spokesperson for the IDF, said in separate comments on Sunday that the military was beginning a "new phase" in the war.
The IDF said on Monday it had struck more than 160 targets in Gaza in the past day. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that civilians had been killed on Monday in an Israeli air strike in central Gaza, citing unspecified local medical sources. According to the news agency, 28 people were killed in Gaza, including 16 in Khan Younis.
A six-week ceasefire deal, brokered in Qatar with heavy influence from U.S. President Donald Trump's officials in January, ended with renewed fighting earlier this year.
Continued negotiations have failed to yield further ceasefire deals, denting Trump's ambitions to secure an end to the 19 months of war in Gaza. Negotiations to stop fighting in Ukraine, which Trump has called for, have likewise dragged on without an agreement between Kyiv and Moscow.
The Israeli government said on Sunday that it would allow "a basic quantity of food to be brought in for the population" of Gaza following Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid imposed from early March.
International humanitarian organizations and officials across the world have warned of dire conditions inside Gaza and have pushed for Israel to resume aid deliveries into the territory.
Smoke rising after an Israeli army bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza, as seen from southern Israel on May 19.
Smoke rising after an Israeli army bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza, as seen from southern Israel on May 19.
AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
What People Are Saying
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement: "Israel will allow a basic quantity of food to be brought in for the population in order to make certain that no starvation crisis develops in the Gaza Strip."
Effie Defrin, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, said in a media briefing on Sunday: "We are in a prolonged war—'Gideon's Chariots' is another phase of it."
What Happens Next
It is not yet clear whether a fresh round of ceasefire talks will yield any progress toward a deal to end the war in Gaza.
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