Israel has ordered the evacuation of the main city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, states the report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Tel Aviv has released maps showing new areas covering about 20% of the city of Khan Younis to be evacuated.

According to the UN Office, more than 110,000 people lived in the area before the outbreak of hostilities.

There are also 32 shelters in the area, which have housed more than 140,000 internally displaced people, the vast majority of whom were previously displaced from the north.

The instructions accompanying the map call for residents to immediately move to shelters south of Khan Younis, particularly in the areas of al-Shabura, Tel al-Sultan, and al-Zahur in Rafah province. The scale of displacement due to the evacuation order is not specified.