The United Nations has told AFP that the Israeli military ordered people taking refuge in their shelter hit with deadly tank fire in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis to leave by the following afternoon.

A spokeswoman for UNRWA, the agency for Palestinian refugees, confirmed testimony from displaced people in the shelter who said the army gave them until 5pm (1500 GMT) on Friday to flee.

“The army called the UNRWA official through the loudspeaker, she went over to them next to the tanks, and they told her to notify us to vacate the premises by 5pm tomorrow,” said Amal Lubbad, a displaced Gazan at the facility.

“We don’t know where we’ll go.”

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