Category: Atrocity, from Wikidata’s class “massacre”
Khan Yunis massacre
Part of: ethnic cleansing in Palestine Wikidata
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: massacre (all its classes: Wikidata item)
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.
Text retrieved 2026-09-26 from Wikipedia.
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Khan Yunis massacre. (2026, May 31). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khan_Yunis_massacre&oldid=1357131497
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