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During the evening of 9 July 2024, Israeli Defense Forces conducted an airstrike that targeted a gate at the entrance of al-Awda School in Abasan al-Kabira, Khan Yunis Governorate. [2] A US-made GBU-39 precision-guided glide bomb, manufactured by Boeing, was used in the attack. [ 6 ]
On 18 February, the IDF reported that Hamas's Khan Yunis Brigade no longer existed as a military entity but other Hamas-aligned militias continued attacks against the IDF. [ 40 ] On 19 February, the IDF reported that clearing operations in western Khan Yunis were being finished with Israeli forces carrying out airstrikes to eliminate Hamas ...
The first battle between Israel and Hamas in Khan Yunis, part of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, began on 1 December 2023 and evolved into a siege in late January 2024. It ended on 7 April 2024 with the withdrawal of the IDF from not only Khan Yunis but all of the southern Gaza Strip, a move which was partially reversed with the ongoing ...
Earlier on 22 July, the Israel Defense Forces issued new evacuation orders after it claimed that there were renewed Palestinian militant attacks and rocket attacks from eastern Khan Yunis. Israel downsized the humanitarian zone where 1.7 million Palestinians took refuge and adjusted its boundaries, reducing it from 65 km 2 to 48 km 2 .
More than 47,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Israeli attacks, according to medical officials in Gaza. ... and armed fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis, where a ...
The Khan Yunis massacre took place on 3 November 1956, ... The attack began with an Israeli strike on Egyptian positions in the Sinai Peninsula on October 29. A day ...
Khan Yunis is the second largest urban area in the Gaza Strip after Gaza City. It serves as the principal market center of the territory's southern half and hosts a weekly Bedouin souk ("open-air market") mostly involving local commodities. [48] As of 2012 Khan Yunis had the highest unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories. [49]
The Hamad City incursion was a two–week Israeli military operation against Hamas forces in the apartment complex and neighborhood of Hamad City, Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip. Battle On 3 March, Israeli forces entered Hamad City , setting up checkpoints there and telling civilians to leave. [ 8 ]