Over 21 Palestinians killed Monday in Gaza, new evacuation orders in Rafah

The Israeli army conducted a new wave of deadly strikes that killed at least 21 Palestinians on Monday morning in Gaza, on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr celebrations, marking the end of Ramadan.

Following a series of attacks launched early Monday morning by the Israeli army in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, which killed nine. Nine other Palestinians were killed in similar strikes, according to local correspondents of Al-Jazeera, who report several others injured.

These attacks killed three in al-Zawayda and the Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the enclave, while three men were killed near the Jabalia camp in the north. Two of the victims were in their thirties and the other was a 19-year-old young man, the Qatari media specified.

Three farmers were killed near Deir al-Balah, also in the center of the strip, while three other people died from an Israeli forces strike east of the village of al-Musaddar, according to information from the Palestinian Information Center.

Moreover, the Arabic-speaking spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, issued a new forced evacuation order, the most significant since the resumption of the war, addressed to the residents of the city of Rafah, where nearly 50,000 Palestinians reside in the south of the besieged territory, warning that Israeli soldiers will soon "resume intense combat operations" there. "For your safety, you must immediately flee to al-Mawassi," he wrote. Considered a "safe humanitarian zone," the al-Mawassi area was regularly targeted by previous Israeli bombings during the war.

On Sunday, the Israeli raids against the Gaza Strip had already killed 64 Palestinians, according to medical sources cited by Al-Jazeera.

Since the resumption of the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, in violation of the ceasefire agreement concluded with Hamas in mid-January, more than 900 Palestinians have been killed, in addition to over 1,300 injured, raising the human toll of the war to at least 50,277 officially killed, most of whom are children, women, and elderly people, not counting the thousands of missing whose bodies have yet to be found under the rubble.