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The Khan Yunis refugee camp was established after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, accommodating roughly 35,000 Palestinian refugees, who fled or were expelled by Zionist militias from their homes. On 3 November 1956, the camp and city of Khan Yunis were occupied by the Israel Defense Forces .
The other massacre took place in the Khan Yunis refugee camp. [13] Although Israel's purpose was to root out the fedayin from Gaza, the massacres were largely wrought on civilians. According to Jean-Pierre Filiu , the process of identifying 'fedayin' was inexact, it sufficing to have a picture of Nasser on one's wall to become suspect, or be ...
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]
As with the earlier Khan Yunis massacre, reporting of the circumstances and actions which resulted in the killing of 111 Palestinians in Rafah and the nearby refugee camp by the Israeli military are inconsistent and conflicting, with Israel neither denying nor acknowledging any wrongdoing, [1] while admitting that a number of refugees were ...
On 16 February, the IDF raided the Khan Yunis refugee camp. Special forces soldiers of the Maglan unit backed by armored and engineering forces infiltrated the camp, which had not been conquered by the IDF, and surprised the militants in it, with the soldiers positioning themselves to trap as many militants as possible.
Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri was born around 1965 in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. [8] [9] His family originates from al-Qubeiba, a former town near Ramleh in Mandatory Palestine, but fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestine war.
Gush Katif Airport (ICAO: LLAZ) [1] is a small abandoned airfield in the Gaza Strip approximately three kilometres (2 mi) north of the town of Khan Yunis, and adjacent to the UNRWA Khan Yunis refugee camp. It was located immediately west of the former Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal, and named after the former Israeli settlement area of Gush Katif.
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 ] Its land area is 69.61% urban, 12.8% rural, and 17.57% comprising the Khan Yunis refugee camp .