israeli authorities have denied the who s claim. the israel defense forces are now telling civilians to leave areas around khan younis a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety earlier in the conflict. our diplomatic editor paul adams has more on the latest on the ground. so israeli ground forces, including tanks, other armoured vehicles and bulldozers, have been operating close to the city of khan younis in the southern gaza strip, the largest city in the southern gaza strip for the last couple of days. and it seems likely that an assault on the city may be coming fairly soon. but we are hearing that there are very, very heavy air strikes in parts of khan younis. some of those parts are areas that the israelis have told palestinians to evacuate. the un is saying though areas that everyone population of 350,000 so there is a fear being voiced by the un that we may see large numbers of palestinians on the move once again, some of them for the second, third, fourth,
and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals. israeli authorities have denied the who s claim. the israel defense forces are now telling civilians to leave areas around khan younis, a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety earlier in the conflict. our diplomatic editor paul adams has more on the latest on the ground. so israeli ground forces, including tanks, other armoured vehicles and bulldozers, have been operating close to the city of khan younis in the southern gaza strip, the largest city in the southern gaza strip for the last couple of days. and it seems likely that an assault on the city may be coming fairly soon. we are hearing that there are very, very heavy air strikes in parts of khan younis. some of those parts are areas that the israelis have told palestinians to evacuate. there is a very real fear voiced by the un that we may see large numbers of palestinians on the move once again, some of them for their second, third, fourth, fifth time. last
have continued, as have those on the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists it s making maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas, which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our international editor jeremy bowen reports on the situation in the west bank and gaza. there s distressing footage from the very beginning. lost boys, brothers looking for their father my dad s been killed. i swear my dad s been killed. they re lost in the mighty vengeance promised by israel. then they found their father and brother were dead. the strike, filmed by a freelance journalist, destroyed the home of this family injabalia, northern gaza. these are the latest israeli army pictures. they re pushing forward into souther
an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. they believe these new maps, with this detailed grid, numbered grid, should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, these are the areas you have to leave. the trouble is people don t know where they should leave to. israel is also hitting targets outside of those demarcated areas. anything that the israelis regard as a high value target where hamas might have some of its infrastructure or where acre hamas commande
the operations in the south will be conducted with no less strength than in the north. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas that it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says that it is giving as much notice as it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. and they believe that these new maps with this detailed grid, numbered grid should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, t