Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kersby and we begin in Gaza where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing the southern city of Khan Yunus.

The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order telling civilians to immediately leave a wide sweep of land to the east of that city after more than 20 rockets were fired towards Israel.

Overnight, eyewitnesses reported multiple Israeli strikes in the area.

At least eight people were killed according to the Hamas-run health authorities and several

others were wounded.

Many believe another major Israeli ground offensive could be imminent.

But for thousands of civilians, this latest evacuation is yet another upheaval, nearly nine months into the conflict,

where most families have moved multiple times already, and where nowhere feels safe.

This man was facing a long trek with his children again by foot.

We came from the eastern area, then we moved to the European Hospital, then we went to Raffer, then we came back to

Banizuhala, and now we just went up to the Somood camp.

God knows where we'll go tomorrow.

It's tiring, tiring, tiring. There's no time to carry anything. There's no

transportation, basically. I have children with me and they all walk.

Well medics at the nearby European Hospital in Carnunis said that they were also told to

evacuate Dr Mohammed Tahere is a British surgeon working at the hospital.

I'd been at a Nasser medical complex where I was lecturing a medical student.

I returned to the European hospital to start my operating and then we got the news that the hospital was being

evacuated of course I found that to be very strange because I always assumed the

European hospital would be one of the safe havens in Gaza.

And yet the news was confirmed to us that it was actually in the red zone and had been deemed unsafe.

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