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The battle of Khan Yunis, which evolved into the siege of Khan Yunis in late January 2024, [23] began on 1 December 2023 in the midst of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Battle December 2023
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]
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 ]
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks battled their way to the heart of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the main city of the southern Gaza Strip, as health authorities in Hamas-run ...
At Khan Younis' main Nasser hospital, the wounded arrived by ambulance, car, flatbed truck and donkey cart after what survivors described as a strike on a school being used as a shelter for the ...
Israeli troops fought their way back into an eastern section of Khan Younis in a surprise raid, residents said on Monday, sending people who had returned to abandoned homes in the ruins of the ...
The second battle of Khan Yunis was a military engagement in the Gaza Strip that began on 22 July 2024 [10] as part of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.It marked the return of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to the Khan Yunis area inside the Gaza Strip after a previous battle and siege which lasted from December 2023 to April 2024 and ended with an Israeli withdrawal.
The Hamas-run Gaza media office said Israel's eight-day-long raid in eastern areas of Khan Younis killed 255 Palestinians and wounded more than 300 others. At leas 30 people remained missing.