Since the Israeli military issued the first of several instructions to civilians to evacuate northern Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Gazans have moved to the south of the Strip.
But the south has continued to come under fire from Israeli airstrikes, leading the United Nations and other aid organizations to warn that nowhere in Gaza is safe for civilians.
To better understand the risks to civilians in southern Gaza, BBC Verify (the fact-checking team) has identified and analyzed four specific cases of attacks in the region.
We also looked at some of the warnings and evacuation instructions issued to civilians from Gaza, including advice to move to certain areas in the south.
Certain warnings were accompanied by maps with arrows pointing to vaguely defined areas to which they should move.
Three of the attacks we studied struck within or very close to those areas in the days after those warnings were issued.
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The Israeli military said they were communicating with Gazans through various means, including dropping leaflets, posting on social media in Arabic and issuing warnings through civilian and international organizations.
In this article, we have studied the instructions of the Israeli army posted on social networks.
Khan Yunis - October 10
The Israeli military said on October 10 that its warplanes hit more than 200 targets in Rimal in the north and Khan Yunis in the south overnight.
The BBC studied the attack from that day in central Khan Yunis to better understand the location and scale of the damage.
Footage released after the attack shows rubble and collapsed buildings in the city center.
We verified the location with the help of visual clues such as the minaret of the Great Mosque in Khan Yunis.
We also explored photos of destroyed buildings and people picking through what was left of their cars and homes.
We know that the photos show the same location as the one that can be seen in the video because of the same pharmacy sign that can be seen in both.
We used a reverse image search to verify that the photos were not from an earlier incident.
On the morning of October 8, Israeli army spokesman Avishay Adra posted online warning X in Arabic, instructing residents of various areas of Gaza to leave their homes and move elsewhere for their own safety.
And while evacuation zones were often clearly marked, the destinations residents were told to go to were often much more vague.
In this case, those who lived in the neighborhoods of Abasan Al Kabira and Abasan Al Sagira, a few kilometers southeast of Khan Yunis, were told in a tweet on October 8 to go to "Khan Yunis city center."
The map published in the video for those living in these two settlements highlights their current residence and is marked with an arrow that simply points in the direction of Khan Yunis.
We cannot rule out the possibility that there were different instructions afterwards, but the BBC found no evidence of this.
Rafa - October 11
The BBC found that there was another airstrike the following day, further south, near the border with Egypt.
In this attack on October 11, Nejmeh square in the center of Rafa was hit.
The BBC has examined a video posted on social media showing the devastation left behind after the attack.
Using available images of the square from before the attack, we were able to identify Nejmeh Square by the shapes of the buildings.
In an Israeli military warning on October 8 instructions were given for the residents of Rafa, telling them to immediately go to the shelter in the center "for their own safety".
The map on the video for those who live in the Rafe settlements contains an arrow pointing the residents towards "Rafa".
The BBC has analyzed all of the Israeli army's warning posts in Arabic on social media that it is aware of from this period.
We have not been able to find evidence of any subsequent instructions, but this does not eliminate the possibility that there may have been.
Khan Yunis - October 19
Eight days later, again in Khan Yunis, there was another attack - on Gamal Abdel Nasser Street.
We found this out by looking at footage of collapsed buildings on one of the city's main thoroughfares.
By matching the shapes of the buildings in the video with those in other images of the same location, we were able to determine that it was the same place.
Additional footage after the attack shows the bodies of the dead and wounded being pulled from the rubble and taken to the nearby Nasser Hospital.
The Israeli army is issued a warning on October 16 for residents of Gaza City to move south to Khan Yunis "if your safety and the safety of your loved ones are important to you".
Once again, there is a possibility that there were additional instructions that were different, but we found no evidence of their existence.
Camps in central Gaza - October 17, 18 and 25
Further north, in central Gaza, there are four refugee camps.
The BBC identified the attacks on two.
Footage of the aftermath of the October 17 attack on Al Bureij camp on social media shows extensive rubble, fire and bloodied bodies being pulled from the rubble.
We verified the footage by matching the buildings in the footage with news agency photos of the aftermath of the attack.
We also confirmed the location from the video with the help of the mosque that can be seen on it.
Another camp nearby, Al Nuseirat, was hit the following day, October 18.
We confirmed the authenticity of footage from social networks of the aftermath of the attack, which shows ambulances, ruins, people putting out the fire and a destroyed bakery.
We located her by matching the names of the stores that can be seen in the video with those in the photos published before the attack.
Despite to the earlier warning of October 8 who directed residents of eastern and southern Magazi areas to go to camps in central Gaza, there do not appear to be any camps at the location indicated on the map in the tweet.
However, we have identified three camps that are nearby: Al Nuseirat and Al Bureij, which were hit in the attacks on 17 and 18 October, and another camp called Deir Al Bala.
We cannot rule out the possibility that there were different instructions afterwards, but the BBC found no evidence of this.
The consequences of another attack on the Al Nuseirat camp, from October 25, were shown by Al Jazeera.
Footage posted online shows her chief Gaza correspondent Wael Al Daduh in tears at the hospital, holding the body of her seven-year-old daughter and kneeling over the body of her teenage son.
His wife also died.
"There is no safe place in Gaza," he said in the English translation of an interview for Al Jazeera.
He said his family came from the north after an Israeli warning to move to the south for their own safety.
The response of the Israeli army
The BBC has sent specific locations and dates to the Israeli military for each of the attacks covered in this article.
We asked if these locations were hit by Israeli army forces and if they issued warnings before these attacks.
The Israeli military responded that it "cannot provide additional information regarding these specific locations."
They said they "urged civilians in Gaza to move south for their own safety, but will continue to target terrorist targets in all parts of Gaza."
"In accordance with international law, the Israel Defense Forces are taking precautionary measures to avoid harm to the civilian population."
"Among those measures are warnings before attacks in cases where they are possible," they added.
Watch the video: An aerial shot of the devastated Gaza
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