'Continuous displacement': Thousands ordered to evacuate Khan Younis Israel expanded evacuation orders in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave their homes. "What you see is a process of continuous displacement, these are people who are taking their children, the few bags they have ... their old folks ... and just moving, in this summer heat, continously," FRANCE 24's Irris Makler said, reporting from Jerusalem.