More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in four days, the United Nations says, after an Israeli operation to extract captives’ bodies from the area, AFP reports.

Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Younis area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas fighting, have fuelled “new waves of internal displacement across Gaza”, said the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.

It said “about 182,000 people” have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Younis between Monday and Thursday, and hundreds are “stranded in eastern Khan Younis”.

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