Monday Briefing: Israel Widens Evacuation Orders

In recent days, tens of thousands of people have fled the city of Khan Younis in Gaza after Israel’s military told them to evacuate. A new order issued yesterday covered the neighborhood of al-Jalaa, part of a humanitarian zone in southwestern Gaza. The Israeli military said it was planning to fight in the area because Hamas had “embedded terrorist infrastructure” there. Here’s the latest.

The order came a day after Israel gave a similar explanation — that Hamas fighters were hiding among civilians — for a strike on a school turned shelter that the local authorities said killed more than 90 people. More than 2,000 displaced people had been staying at the shelter, Gazan authorities said.

Israel has adjusted the borders of the humanitarian zone several times already — the area shrank by more than a fifth last month. Many people in Gaza say nowhere in the enclave is truly safe, and Israel has mounted attacks inside the designated humanitarian zone before. Last month, it targeted the commander of Hamas’s military wing with a strike that Gazan authorities said killed at least 90 people.

On the ground: Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an American pediatrician who spent three weeks working in one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, shared a record of what he witnessed, including rare footage from inside Al Aqsa Hospital.