Israel seems to have shifted its focus to southern Gaza because it resumed aerial assaults on the Strip after a week-long pause in preventing and urged folks to evacuate, prompting hypothesis {that a} new floor incursion may very well be imminent. Nearly all of Gaza’s inhabitants is now crowded within the south, and panic and confusion have gripped Palestinians in elements of Khan Younis, the place the Israeli navy has declared “fight zones” and directed folks to evacuate, regardless of beforehand declaring them “safer zones.” High U.S. officers warned Israel to guard civilians, with Vice President Harris saying that “too many … have been killed.” Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin stated {that a} failure to guard civilians would drive Palestinians “into the arms of the enemy.”