Southern Gaza in a sentence

While some displaced citizens from the southern Gaza Valley governorates have returned to their homes or stayed near their destroyed houses, hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Gaza and northern Gaza governorates remain in shelter centers.

Palestinians travel in a truck as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 8, 2024.

Amid relentless violence, families flee their shattered homes in Tal al-Hawa, a neighborhood in Gaza City, seeking refuge in the southern Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian rioter burns tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border fence on September 23, 2023.

A Palestinian woman wounded as a result of fighting in the Gaza Strip receives treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023.

An Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, launched in the face of international outcry, has deepened an already perilous humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

In more footage, the Israeli army is shown destroying the Grand Mosque in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, one of the oldest mosques in Gaza, built 96 years ago.

Israel has stepped up air and ground attacks in Gaza City and southern Gaza since issuing evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people in the war-stricken Palestinian territory.

Israeli troops have turned Nasser Hospital, the main medical center serving the southern Gaza Strip, into a "military barracks" and are "endangering the lives of patients and medical staff," according to Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Gaza conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 19, 2024.

Shady*, 40, a farmer from northern Gaza, fled to Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza with his family when the bombing intensified.

The likely council vote comes as Israel also plans to storm Rafah in southern Gaza, where more than 1 million Palestinians have sought shelter, prompting international concern that such a move would sharply worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The U.N. humanitarian office has warned that “Gaza is a public health disaster in the making,” and recent mass displacement across southern Gaza is fueling disease outbreaks, she said.

Two journalists, including the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, were killed by an strike in southern Gaza on Sunday.

According to an IDF statement, Israeli soldiers also saw several people crossing into Israeli territory from the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon, grab a crate and return immediately into Gaza.

A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli soldier in the southern Gaza Strip during a demonstration, Gaza’s Ministry of Health and family members said.

Palestinian mourners gather around the body of a man who was killed during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border on May 14, 2018, during his funeral at a mosque in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Palestinians remove part of the Israeli fence at the Israel-Gaza border during clashes at a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, in the southern Gaza Strip April 6, 2018.

An Israeli aircraft attacks a Hamas observation post in southern Gaza in response to attacks earlier in the evening on southern Israel from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces says.

A doctor in the southern Gaza city of Rafah told the news agency that “weight loss and anemia were common and people were so weak and dehydrated they were more susceptible to chest infections and skin conditions,” with children most at risk.