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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. [46] As of 2012 Khan Yunis had the highest unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories. [47]
The Khan Yunis Governorate (Arabic: محافظة خان يونس Muḥāfaẓat Ḫān Yūnis) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the southern Gaza Strip. Its district capital is Khan Yunis. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the governorate had a population of 426,056 in mid-2022. [2]
Al-Qarara or Al Qarara (Arabic: القرارة) is a Palestinian town located north of Khan Yunis, in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the southern Gaza Strip.According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Qarara had a population of 29,004 inhabitants in 2017, [1] The town is 15 miles south of Gaza City, and used to be a farming village. [2]
Bani Suheila (Arabic: بني سهيلا) is a municipality in the Gaza Strip, in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the State of Palestine. The town is located 2 km (1.2 mi) east of the city of Khan Younis. As of 2017, Bani Suheila had a population of 41,439 people. [2]
Hamad City is situated in the northwestern part of Khan Yunis, adjacent to Deir al-Balah. [18] It consisted of three thousand apartments divided among fifty-three sand-coloured apartment blocks. [ 11 ] [ 25 ] Each building consisted of a ground floor and five-storeys above it, with four apartments on each floor. [ 9 ]
Protesters calling for the return of hostages held in the Gaza Strip react after a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced (Getty Images)
Abd al-Hadi Sabah, who led the infiltration into Kibbutz Nir Oz, which ravaged the community near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, was killed on Tuesday local time in the Western Khan Yunis Battalion.
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 ]