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Khan Yunis massacre is a massacre that took place on November 3, 1956 in the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis and the nearby Khan Yunis Camp in the Gaza Strip during the Suez Crisis .1During an Israel Defense Force operation to reopen the Egyptian-blockaded Straits of Tiran , Khan Yunis was occupied by Israeli soldiers, who shot dead between 200 and 275 civilians, refugees and local residents. According to a number of eyewitnesses accounts documented in Joe Sacco 's graphic documentary Footnotes in Gaza , Israeli soldiers shot a number of Palestinian men in their homes and lined up others and executed them. That a massacre of civilians took place has been disputed, and Israeli authorities claim IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted.2 But many Fedayeen and an estimated 4,000 Egyptian and Palestinian regulars were trapped in the Strip, identified and rounded up by the IDF, GSS, and police. Dozens of these Fedayeen appear to have been summarily executed, without trial. Some were probably killed during two massacres by IDF troops soon after the occupation of the Strip. On 3 November, the day Khan Yunis was conquered, IDF troops shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in the town. One UN report speaks of 'some 135 local residents' and '140 refugees' killed as IDF troops moved through the town and its refugee camp 'searching for people in possession of arms'. Graphic novel on IDF 'massacres' in Gaza set to hit bookstores . הטבח בחאן יונס3
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The Khan Yunis massacre took place on 3 November 1956 in the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis and the nearby refugee camp of the same name in the Gaza Strip during the Suez Crisis .According to Benny Morris , during an Israel Defense Forces operation to reopen the Egyptian-blockaded Straits of Tiran , Israeli soldiers shot two hundred Palestinians in Khan Yunis and Rafah .According to Noam Chomsky 's The Fateful Triangle , citing Donald Neff , 275 Palestinians were killed in a brutal house-to-house search for Fedayeen (while a further 111 were reportedly killed in Rafah ).Israeli authorities say that IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted.Meir Pa'il told the Associated Press, "There was never a killing of such a degree.I don't know of any massacre." Morris, Benny (1994). But many Fedayeen and an estimated 4,000 Egyptian and Palestinian regulars were trapped in the Strip, identified and rounded up by the IDF, GSS, and police. Dozens of these Fedayeen appear to have been summarily executed, without trial. Some were probably killed during two massacres by IDF troops soon after the occupation of the Strip. On 3 November, the day Khan Yunis was conquered, IDF troops shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in the town. One UN report speaks of 'some 135 local residents' and '140 refugees' killed as IDF troops moved through the town and its refugee camp 'searching for people in possession of arms'. About two hundred of these were killed in the course of massacres in Khan Yunis (on 3 November) and in Rafa (on 12 November). Graphic novel on IDF 'massacres' in Gaza set to hit bookstores . גרינפטר, יעל.
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1956 mass killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces during the Suez Crisis The Khan Yunis massacre took place on 3 November 1956 in the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis and the nearby refugee camp of the same name in the Gaza Strip during the Suez Crisis . According to Benny Morris , during an Israel Defense Forces operation to reopen the Egyptian-blockaded Straits of Tiran , Israeli soldiers shot two hundred Palestinians in Khan Yunis and Rafah . According to Noam Chomsky 's The Fateful Triangle , citing Donald Neff , 275 Palestinians were killed in a brutal house-to-house search for fedayeen (while a further 111 were reportedly killed in Rafah ). Israeli authorities say that IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted. IDF colonel Meir Pa'il told the Associated Press, "There was never a killing of such a degree. I don't know of any massacre." Morris, Benny (1994). But many Fedayeen and an estimated 4,000 Egyptian and Palestinian regulars were trapped in the Strip, identified and rounded up by the IDF, GSS, and police. Dozens of these Fedayeen appear to have been summarily executed, without trial. Some were probably killed during two massacres by IDF troops soon after the occupation of the Strip. On 3 November, the day Khan Yunis was conquered, IDF troops shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in the town. One UN report speaks of 'some 135 local residents' and '140 refugees' killed as IDF troops moved through the town and its refugee camp 'searching for people in possession of arms'. About two hundred of these were killed in the course of massacres in Khan Yunis (on 3 November) and in Rafa (on 12 November). Graphic novel on IDF 'massacres' in Gaza set to hit bookstores . גרינפטר, יעל. "הטבח בחאן יונס" . הארץ – via Haaretz.
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1956 mass killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces during the Suez Crisis The Khan Yunis massacre took place on 3 November 1956, perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis and the nearby refugee camp of the same name in the Gaza Strip during the Suez Crisis . According to Benny Morris , during an IDF operation to reopen the Egyptian-blockaded Straits of Tiran , Israeli soldiers shot two hundred Palestinians in Khan Yunis and Rafah . According to Noam Chomsky 's The Fateful Triangle , citing Donald Neff , 275 Palestinians were killed in a brutal house-to-house search for fedayeen (while a further 111 were reportedly killed in Rafah). Israeli authorities say that IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted. But many Fedayeen and an estimated 4,000 Egyptian and Palestinian regulars were trapped in the Strip, identified and rounded up by the IDF, GSS, and police. Dozens of these Fedayeen appear to have been summarily executed, without trial. Some were probably killed during two massacres by IDF troops soon after the occupation of the Strip. On 3 November, the day Khan Yunis was conquered, IDF troops shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in the town. One UN report speaks of 'some 135 local residents' and '140 refugees' killed as IDF troops moved through the town and its refugee camp 'searching for people in possession of arms'. "הטבח בחאן יונס" . הארץ – via Haaretz.
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