Israel's military announces the withdrawal of its forces from Khan Younis, marking a key phase in its ground offensive against Hamas. Troops are regrouping to prepare for an offensive in Rafah, Hamas' last stronghold. The war in Gaza is far from over.
| Israel ’s military announced on Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis , wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group and bringing its troop presence in the territory to one of the lowest levels since the six-month war began.
AP video in Khan Younis showed some people returning to a landscape marked by shattered multistory buildings and climbing over debris. Cars were overturned and charred. Southern Gaza’s main hospital, Nasser, was in shambles.“It’s all just rubble,” a dejected Ahmad Abu al-Rish said. “Animals can’t live here, so how is a human supposed to?”
Israel’s military quietly drew down troops in devastated northern Gaza earlier in the war. But it has continued to carry out airstrikes and raids in areas where it says Hamas has resurfaced, including Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, leaving what the head of the World Health Organisation called “an empty shell”.
“Humanity has been all but abandoned” in Gaza, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a statement.
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