‘Nowhere is safe’: people in southern Gaza search rubble after airstrikes

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'Nowhere is safe': people in southern Gaza search rubble after airstrikes

People sifted through the rubble and debris of flattened buildings with their bare hands in Khan Younis, as fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups passed its 12th day. In Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, a refugee camp was struck by an apparent Israeli airstrike, destroying several makeshift houses. Footage showed neighbourhoods in other parts of the city levelled.

Rafat al-Nakhala, who had sought shelter there after heeding Israel’s order for civilians to flee Gaza City in the north, said: ‘We came from Gaza City, they told us to come to the south so we came to the south. We found that the strikes intensified in the south … There’s nowhere safe in Gaza’
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Date: October 19, 2023