They fled to south Gaza as ordered. Then Israel killed them by Maha Hussaini

In mid-August, Israel launched the first phase of a major offensive aimed at taking control of Gaza City ahead of a full occupation of the Strip.

This marked a major escalation in its military strategy, shifting from months of targeted air strikes to a full-scale ground invasion.

By mid-September, the Israeli military had further intensified air strikes. It issued fresh mass displacement orders to over a million residents in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, instructing them to flee south.

Under relentless bombardment and with no safe refuge remaining in the north, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee.

But many, like Dawoud, were killed in the very places they had fled to – where the bombing had been no less severe.

Since 11 August, Israel has killed 1,903 Palestinians in central and southern Gaza – representing 46 percent of the total death toll in the Gaza Strip during this period, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office.