Khan Yunis (Arabic: خان يونس, lit. 'Caravansary [of] Yonis[2]'), also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip; it is the capital of the Khan Yunis Governorate in the Gaza Strip. Before the 14th century, Khan Yunis was a village known as "Salqah". To protect caravans, pilgrims and travellers a vast caravan serai was constructed there by the emir Yonus an-Nürüzi in 1387-88, an official of the Mamluk Empire.[3] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Khan Yunis had a population of 205,125 in 2017.[1] Khan Yunis, which lies only four kilometres (2+1⁄2 miles) east of the Mediterranean Sea, has a semi-arid climate with temperature of 30 °C maximum in summer and 10 °C minimum in winter, with an annual rainfall of approximately 260 mm (10.2 in).
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KhanYunis (Arabic: خان يونس, lit. 'Caravansary [of] Yonis'), also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip; it is the capital...
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The KhanYunis Governorate (Arabic: محافظة خان يونس Muḥāfaẓat Ḫān Yūnis) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the southern Gaza Strip. Its...
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organization that rules the Gaza Strip, since 2017. He was born in the KhanYunis refugee camp in Egyptian-ruled Gaza in 1962 to a family who had been expelled...
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outside of KhanYunis held by the 86th Palestinian Brigade. After some street-fighting with Egyptian soldiers and Palestinian fedayeen, KhanYunis fell to...
a result of massive bombardment and ground assaults in Gaza City and KhanYunis by Israel during the Israel–Hamas war, about 1.4 million people are believed...
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killed at least six people. On 18 October, the Ahmed Abdel Aziz School in KhanYunis was hit. On 3 November, the IDF bombed the Osama Ben Zaid school. On 4...
bound hands, broken limbs and genital amputation. Main article: Siege of KhanYunis In April 2024, following the withdrawal of israeli forces, over 300 bodies...
soldiers are killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in KhanYunis in the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest day for the Israel Defense...
claimed that they were killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike in KhanYunis. On 19 February, the IDF presented the relatives of the Bibas family a...
Gaza. Israel eventually solidified control of the north, and invaded KhanYunis to the south. Civilians were ordered to evacuate again, and many went...
the Israel-Hamas War, Nasser was one of the final active hospitals in KhanYunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and was one of the last functioning hospitals...
Islamist organization Hamas. Mohammed al-Masri was born in 1965 in the KhanYunis Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip that was set up after the 1948 Palestine...
fedayeen, KhanYunis fell to the Israelis. There are claims that after taking KhanYunis, the IDF committed a massacre, known as the KhanYunis killings...
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