This suggests that troops may soon return. Israel completed its offensive in the city earlier this year and evacuated the majority of its men.
A protracted attack earlier this year damaged much of Khan Younis, but since then, a considerable number of Palestinians have returned to the area in order to flee another Israeli offensive in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.
Benjamin Netanyahu announced at the time that Israel is nearly done destroying Hamas’ military capabilities in Gaza.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, the IDF’s current military onslaught has resulted in almost 37,900 Palestinian deaths and over 87,000 injuries.
Several neighborhoods in the eastern part of Khan Younis were home to residents who claimed to have received audio messages from Israeli phone numbers telling them to evacuate.
The Israeli military claimed in a statement on Monday that missiles fired into Israel originated in the Khan Younis region.
Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad, an ally of Hamas, claimed that its forces had launched rockets at several Israeli communities near the Gaza border.
