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Fear and Uncertainty for Khan Younis Residents

In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, a mother cannot calm her children terrified by constant Israeli airstrikes. Residents of eastern areas, living in tents and damaged homes, wonder why they cannot leave this dangerous zone.


Fear and Uncertainty for Khan Younis Residents

In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, a mother, Ahmad Qadieh, cannot find answers for her children who tremble with fear at every Israeli airstrike, asking her why they do not leave to seek refuge in western Khan Younis, where the displacement is concentrated.

Over the past week, the Israeli army has carried out intense airstrikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis, specifically the area east of the Green Line, where tens of thousands of Palestinians live in tents or in homes damaged during a brutal war that lasted for two years.

Qadieh (40 years old), who lives with her children in a tent next to her destroyed house, says: "We do not sleep all night due to fear because the shelling in the eastern area continues," adding that her children ask her, "Why do we not evacuate from"