Hundreds of Palestinian patients forced to flee the European Hospital and tent camps for the displaced in Khan Younis have emptied as the Israeli army ordered an immediate evacuation of eastern areas of Gaza’s second-largest city.

    A least one person has been killed and six others injured following the Israeli army’s shelling of a house in the eastern area of Khan Younis, according to local reports.

    The latest mass evacuation order comes as Israeli tanks and fierce fighting trap Palestinian civilians in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and the Shujayea neighbourhood in northern Gaza City.

    Israeli prisons are “full” of Gaza captives who experience “almost daily torture“, freed hospital director Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya tells Al Jazeera.

    At least 37,900 people have been killed and 80,060 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

    Israeli settlers attack Palestinian villagers with tear gas, sticks as soldiers look on: Report

    Israeli settlers raided the small Palestinian village of Umm Al-Khair in the south of the occupied West Bank on Monday, leaving six people in hospital, while Israeli security forces stood nearby without intervening, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports.

    It was the latest settler attack on the Bedouin village, which has seen two earlier attacks and a major demolition of homes by Israeli authorities in the last week, the AP reports.

    Residents of the village said settlers from a nearby outpost – known as Roots Farm – fired tear gas canisters at residents and used sticks to attack a man. The leader of the Israeli outpost, Shimon Atiya, also fired two live rounds of ammunition in the area, residents said.

    “There were so many women on the ground, lying on the earth, struggling to breathe,” local rights activist Basel Adra told the AP.

    Videos posted to social media by residents showed a group of about 40 Israeli border police and soldiers looking on as settlers attacked the village.

    As ambulances tried to evacuate the wounded, Adra said soldiers stopped the vehicles, allowing settlers to peer inside. Soldiers also briefly detained one Palestinian man who was in an ambulance before releasing him the same day.

    Last week, Israeli military bulldozers demolished several homes in the village, leaving nearly a quarter of the 200-person village – including 31 children and a prominent Palestinian artist – without a home.

    Several dead in Israeli attacks across Gaza: Report

    The Israeli military has carried out deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours, local media outlet the Palestinian Information Center reports.

    One woman has died and three other people were injured after the Israeli military bombed the Qizan Abu Rashwan neighbourhood, south of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

    A child has also died after the Israeli military bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

    The Palestinian Information Center also reports that a serious clash occurred between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, resulting in deaths on both sides. According to reports, two Palestinians were killed and three injured, including two in critical condition, during the incident.

    Two Israeli soldiers were also killed and 14 wounded, eight seriously, in the same incident, it said.

    We will bring you updates when we have them.