Victims burn as tents bombed by Israelis in Khan Younis

al Jazeera: 

Israel’s war on Gaza: Victims burn as tents bombed in Khan Younis

• Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reports intense Israeli attacks on Khan Younis in southern Gaza with tents for displaced people engulfed in flames after missile strikes that also targeted residential buildings.
• Residents and displaced Palestinians have been ordered by the Israeli military to immediately evacuate the Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya areas of northern Gaza, ahead of an expected “large scale” army operation.
• The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has called on the UN to launch an international investigation into the “systematic torture of Palestinian detainees” amid reports of serious abuses in Israeli prisons, including rape.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel’s continuing assault on Gaza is presenting multiple hurdles to its campaign to prevent a devastating outbreak of polio in the Palestinian territory.

• World Central Kitchen says Palestinian staff killed in Gaza

  The US-based aid group said a Palestinian staff member has been killed in Gaza, four months after Israel killed seven of its employees in an attack that drew widespread condemnation.

  WCK identified the staff member as Nadi Sallout, saying in a post on X that he was “an integral member of our warehouse team from the early days of our response in Rafah and a humanitarian at his very core”.

  The organisation said it is still learning the details of Sallout’s death but believes he was off duty at the time he was killed near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
• 24m ago

   (00:08 GMT)

  A recap of recent developments

  • Israeli forces attacked southern Khan Younis and other areas in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, and issued new evacuation orders for Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya in northern parts of the enclave.
  • Israeli forces also raided several Palestinian cities, towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, shooting and wounding at least four Palestinians and arresting several others.
  • The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has called on the UN to carry out an international investigation into the “systematic torture of Palestinian detainees” who are held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.
  • Yemen’s Houthis said its fighters targeted a ship identified as the Contship Ono with ballistic missiles in the Red Sea, and two US destroyers heading northwards in the waterway.
  • The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) blamed Israel for the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and called the killing “a serious infringement” of Iran’s sovereignty.
• 28m ago

   (00:04 GMT)

  WATCH: The moment Israel bombs central Gaza tent camp

  Israel’s military has carried out a missile strike near a mosque in central Deir el-Balah, hitting two residential buildings and a tent site for hundreds of displaced Palestinian families.

•