The Israeli army has expanded its attacks into the southern and central Gaza Strip, with some of the heaviest fighting in the entire Gaza Strip War Homes housing displaced Palestinians were bombed, refugee camps were destroyed and there was no safe place to evacuate thousands of people who had already been on the run for weeks.

Starting early Wednesday morning, “Israeli tanks began to advance deeper and deeper into the center under heavy air attack Khan Younis “The city came from the east side,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, forcing hundreds of people to flee the area.

“Everyone thought the eastern areas of Khan Younis were the main target, as stated in the leaflets dropped on residents, but it seems as if the entire city of Khan Younis is currently being heavily bombed,” Mahmoud said of those dropped Leaflets from Israeli forces ordering residents to evacuate.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher said the Israeli military was preparing for days of bitter fighting in Khan Younis, which he said was a key Hamas stronghold where many leaders could be based.

However, the Israeli military must proceed cautiously as it believes there may also be large numbers of prisoners there, Fisher said, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem.

“This is all part of a plan to move the operation further south,” he said. “We’ll probably see [the Israeli military’s] The intensive operation will be extended by four to five weeks until mid-January.”

The next few days could see the heaviest fighting of the two-month war, he added.

Mahmoud said: “From this point on, there is no possibility for Palestinians to go anywhere.” The only option that would be feasible or even possible for Palestinians would be to enter Egypt, but given the current situation it seems very, very to be difficult.”

“Under heavy bombardment, the people were initially pushed into the central part [of Gaza]then Khan Younis and now Rafah,” he reported, adding that “more than 1.5 million people have been pushed into this land area that is really full of people.”

Deir el-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, was also under relentless attack throughout the night, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reported from the area. She said there were “incessant explosions, incessant artillery shelling and incessant clashes.” Several houses were bombed.”

“The number of wounded people being brought to the hospital is enormous. “Doctors and paramedics couldn’t save them all,” Khoudary described the intensity of the attacks, noting: “It is very dangerous for people to go either north or south. At the same time, the conditions here are very tough. There is no food in the markets. Even the few foods that were once available no longer exist since the center split off from the south.”

At least six people were killed and 14 injured in an Israeli airstrike Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. An Al Jazeera team at the scene of the attack reported on Wednesday that people were trapped under the rubble of a building that was hit.

As the injured are taken to the area’s few remaining operating hospitals, aid groups sounded the alarm that supplies were dangerously low.

The international medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, warned of this Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah the options ran out.

“There are currently 700 patients hospitalized and new patients are constantly being added,” said Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial, Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator. “We are running out of vital supplies to treat her.”

At least 16,248 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll is around 1,200.