Khan Younis
Updated 2024-08-27
2024-08-09 Families Flee Khan Younis ‘Wasteland’ as Israel Hammers Gaza With US-Supplied Bombs “The most effective action the U.S. could take to halt Israel’s genocidal war would be cutting off weapons.”
A wave of fresh bombings and military ground operations by Israel were underway in the city of Khan Younis on Friday as images of Palestinian families once again forced to flee plastered global news sites and world leaders, including the United States, refused to intervene to stop the relentless assault being inflicted on the people of Gaza.
Al-Jazeera reports the southern city—which its reporter on the ground, Hani Mahmoud, described as “uninhabitable” and turning into a “wasteland”— was bombed approximately 30 times in “just a few hours” overnight. With evacuation orders by the Israeli military sweeping up and down the Gaza Strip week after week, the internally displaced population is forced to move time and again. https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-support-israel-gaza-bombing?
2024-07-25 Israeli Snipers Firing at ‘Anyone Who Is Moving’ in Khan Younis At least 129 people have been killed in the last five days of Israeli shelling and artillery fire in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, where the Israel Defense Forces earlier this week gave people “a couple of minutes only” to evacuate earlier this week, according to Al Jazeera reporter Hind Khoudary, before the bombardment began.
Al Jazeera reported on Thursday that “the vast majority of dead and injured are women and children,” as Israeli snipers have also been deployed in the city and are firing at Palestinians indiscriminately.
The snipers “are shooting anyone who is moving,” wrote Tareq Abu Azzoum in a dispatch, reporting that the eastern part of Khan Younis is the main target of Israel’s current assault. https://www.commondreams.org/news/khan-younis-attack
2024-07-15 Israel Continues to Evade Accountability After Mawasi Massacre, Says Analyst The Israeli military carried out one of its deadliest attacks in weeks when it bombed al-Mawasi in Khan Younis — designated as a “safe zone” — killing at least 90 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more on Saturday. Israel claimed it was targeting Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, but the group denied that Deif had been hit. Israel also struck a makeshift mosque during noon prayer in the Shati refugee camp in west Gaza City, killing 20, and a United Nations school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing 22. We speak with writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada, chief of communications at Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, who says, “We’ve got a situation where Israel is being told, ‘You can do whatever you want, anything you want at all.’”https://truthout.org/video/israel-continues-to-evade-accountability-after-mawasi-massacre-says-analyst/
2024-04-12 New UN footage shows devastation in Gaza’s Khan Younis The United Nations released new footage of the devastation in Khan Younis after the recent withdrawal of Israeli ground troops. A UN team, carrying out assessment missions, said the buildings were ‘destroyed’, with roads ‘reduced to dirt tracks.’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-un-footage-shows-devastation-in-gaza-s-khan-younis/vi-BB1lwn2X?
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