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style="font-size:125%;">Khan Yunis massacre</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg/220px-Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg/330px-Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg/440px-Khan_Yunis-1930s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="322" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Caravanserai of Khan Yunis, 1930s</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data location"><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis" title="Khan Yunis">Khan Yunis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">3 November 1956</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Target</th><td class="infobox-data">Male Arab villagers<br />Suspected members of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_fedayeen" title="Palestinian fedayeen">Palestinian fedayeen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Attack type</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Massacre" title="Massacre">Massacre</a><sup id="cite_ref-morris1994p424_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morris1994p424-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Deaths</th><td class="infobox-data">275+ (per UNWRA report)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Perpetrators</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Khan Yunis massacre</b> took place on 3 November 1956, perpetrated by the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> (IDF) in the Palestinian town of <a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis" title="Khan Yunis">Khan Yunis</a> and the nearby <a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Khan Yunis Camp">refugee camp of the same name</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a>. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Benny_Morris" title="Benny Morris">Benny Morris</a>, during an IDF operation to reopen the Egyptian-blockaded <a href="/wiki/Straits_of_Tiran" title="Straits of Tiran">Straits of Tiran</a>, Israeli soldiers shot two hundred Palestinians in Khan Yunis and <a href="/wiki/Rafah" title="Rafah">Rafah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-morris1994p424_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morris1994p424-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fateful_Triangle" title="The Fateful Triangle">The Fateful Triangle</a></i>, citing <a href="/wiki/Donald_Neff" title="Donald Neff">Donald Neff</a>, 275 Palestinians were killed in a brutal house-to-house search for <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_fedayeen" title="Palestinian fedayeen">fedayeen</a> (while a further 111 were reportedly killed in Rafah).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Israeli authorities say that IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a battle erupted.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ap_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_Nations_report">United Nations report</h2></div> <p>On 15 December 1956, the Special Report of the Director of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Works_Agency_for_Palestine_Refugees_in_the_Near_East" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East">United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East</a> Covering the Period 1 November 1956 to mid-December 1956 was presented to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">General Assembly</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>. The report told both sides of the "Khan Yunis incident".<sup id="cite_ref-un_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-un-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the UNRWA report, "the Director has received from sources he considers trustworthy lists of names of persons allegedly killed on 3 November, numbering 275 individuals".<sup id="cite_ref-un_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-un-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Director's notes also acknowledge a similar incident, the <a href="/wiki/1956_Rafah_massacre" title="1956 Rafah massacre">Rafah massacre</a>, immediately following that city's occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-un_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-un-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Refugee_camp">Refugee camp</h2></div> <p>Conflicting reports of skirmishes between the two peoples were also reported in the neighboring <a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Khan Yunis Camp">Khan Yunis Camp</a>, which housed displaced <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_refugees" title="Palestinian refugees">Palestinian refugees</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/PLO" class="mw-redirect" title="PLO">PLO</a> official Abdullah Al Hourani was in the camp at the time of the killings.<sup id="cite_ref-ab_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ab-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Al Hourani alleged that men were taken from their homes and shot by the Israeli Defense Forces. Hourani himself claimed to have fled from an attempted <a href="/wiki/Summary_execution" title="Summary execution">summary execution</a> without injury.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2></div> <p>A curfew imposed on the citizens of Gaza prevented them from retrieving the bodies of their fellow villagers, leaving them strewn about the area overnight. Injured victims of the shootings would later be transported to Gaza City by the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="International Red Cross">International Red Cross</a> for medical treatment. Israel, bowing to international pressure, withdrew from Gaza and the Sinai in March 1957. Shortly thereafter, a mass grave was unearthed in the vicinity of Khan Yunis, containing the bound bodies of forty Palestinian men who had been shot in the back of the head.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (November 2023)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Palestinian sources list the number at 415 killed, and a further 57 who were unaccounted for, or disappeared. According to the future Hamas leader <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi" title="Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi">Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi</a>, an 8-year-old child in Khan Yunis at the time who witnessed one of the killings, of his uncle,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 525 Gazans were killed by the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">IDF</a> "in cold blood".<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Israeli soldier Marek Gefen was serving in Gaza during the Suez Crisis. In 1982, Gefen, having become a journalist, published his observations of walking through the town shortly following the killings. In his account of post-occupation Khan Yunis, he said, "In a few alleyways we found bodies strewn on the ground, covered in blood, their heads shattered. No one had taken care of moving them. It was dreadful. I stopped at a corner and threw up. I couldn't get used to the sight of a human slaughterhouse."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2></div> <p>In 2009, Maltese-American <a href="/wiki/Comics_journalism" title="Comics journalism">comics journalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sacco" title="Joe Sacco">Joe Sacco</a> published a 418-page account of the killings in Khan Yunis and Rafah, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Footnotes_in_Gaza" title="Footnotes in Gaza">Footnotes in Gaza</a></i>. The graphic novel relies heavily on mostly directly retrieved eyewitness accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-b_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewing the work for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cockburn" title="Alexander Cockburn">Alexander Cockburn</a> wrote that, "[Sacco] stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist because his ability to tell a story through his art is combined with investigative reporting of the highest quality" and stated that "it is difficult to imagine how any other form of journalism could make these events so interesting."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sacco acknowledges taking sides, writing "I don't believe in objectivity as it's practiced in American journalism. I'm not anti-Israeli ... It's just I very much believe in getting across the Palestinian point of view".<sup id="cite_ref-ap_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jose Alaniz, Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Washington" title="University of Washington">University of Washington</a>, said that Sacco uses subtle ways to manipulate the reader to make the Palestinian side seem more victimized and the Israelis more menacing.<sup id="cite_ref-ap_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Story_told_in_Footnotes_in_Gaza">Story told in <i>Footnotes in Gaza</i></h3></div> <p>In 1956, <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian President">Egyptian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Gamal Abdel Nasser</a> ordered the <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalization</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a>, an important waterway that allowed trade to flow between the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, via the <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea" title="Red Sea">Red Sea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sacco_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sacco-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a secret meeting at <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A8vres" title="Sèvres">Sèvres</a> on October 24, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and Israel agreed to launch a three-pronged offensive against Egypt. The attack began with an Israeli strike on Egyptian positions in the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a> on October 29. A day afterwards, Britain and France served an ultimatum on both Israel and Egypt, which was to function as a pretext for the subsequent operation by both powers to intervene and protect the Suez Canal. Both the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> demanded on October 30 that hostilities cease and that Israel withdraw its forces back to the armistice line. </p><p>The day after, French naval forces bombarded Rafah, while the <a href="/wiki/RAF" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF">RAF</a> made bombing raids on Egyptian airfields. Israel announced it had conquered Rafah by November 1, and began shelling the Gaza Strip. Given the exercise of their veto rights in the UN Security Council by France and Britain, the two great powers were forced to obtain a resolution to that effect before the General Assembly, which duly passed a ceasefire motion on November 2, the same day that Egypt lost control of the Sinai peninsula<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and incursions into <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt">Egyptian-occupied Gaza</a> via the city of <a href="/wiki/Rafah" title="Rafah">Rafah</a> occurred. At the beginning of the day the IDF broadcast that it knew of the identities of the fedayeen and would punish them for raiding Israel and that the civilian population would be held collectively responsible for such attacks. As a result, around 1,500 fedayeen fled the Strip with relatives for sanctuary to the West Bank, to Hebron and other places, or by skiffs across to Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After killing or capturing all hostile militants in the latter two population centers, forces from the two ends of the Strip met in Khan Yunis on November 3.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As opposed to the swift surrender of Egyptian forces in Gaza, the garrison in Khan Yunis under the command of General Yusuf al-Agrudi put up stiff resistance. Israel replied by bombing raids and artillery shelling on the town, which exacted heavy losses in civilian lives, and troops accompanied by an armoured column took the town on November 3.<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Men suspected of having borne arms were executed on the spot, in their homes or places of employment, while all males from 15 years to 60 years of age were forced to muster. Two massacres of civilians then took place: The first occurred when citizens were machine-gunned down after being forced to line up against the wall of the Ottoman-era <a href="/wiki/Caravanserai" title="Caravanserai">caravanserai</a> in the city's central square.<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local residents claim that the number of Palestinians shot dead in this action amounted to 100, according to oral memories collected by Joe Sacco.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other massacre took place in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Israel's purpose was to root out the fedayin from Gaza, the massacres were largely wrought on civilians. According to <a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Filiu" title="Jean-Pierre Filiu">Jean-Pierre Filiu</a>, the process of identifying 'fedayin' was inexact, it sufficing to have a picture of Nasser on one's wall to become suspect, or be arrested because one had a similar name to someone on <a href="/wiki/Shin_Bet" title="Shin Bet">Shin Bet</a>'s suspect list. Occasionally local children were reported to have been used as <a href="/wiki/Human_shields" class="mw-redirect" title="Human shields">human shields</a> in areas where snipers were suspected of lying in wait, or where sites might have been booby-trapped.<sup id="cite_ref-Filiu_13-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Filiu-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to one account from a fleeing fedayeen, Saleh Shiblaq, Israeli forces walked through the town on the morning of 3 November, forcing men out of their homes or shooting them where they were found. In 2003, Shiblaq told Sacco that all the old men, women, and children were removed from his household. Upon their departure, the remaining young men were sprayed with bursts of gunfire by Israeli soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-sac_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sac-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adult male residents of Jalal Street were allegedly lined up and fired upon from fixed positions with <a href="/wiki/Bren_light_machine_gun" title="Bren light machine gun">Bren light machine guns</a>, firing extraneously to the point that a stench of <a href="/wiki/Cordite" title="Cordite">cordite</a> filled the air.<sup id="cite_ref-cordite_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cordite-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict">Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt">Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_Qasim_massacre" title="Kafr Qasim massacre">Kafr Qasim massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shafrir_synagogue_shooting_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafrir synagogue shooting attack">Shafrir synagogue shooting attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Palestinian_territories" title="List of massacres in the Palestinian territories">List of massacres in the Palestinian territories</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="#cite_ref-morris1994p424_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMorris1994" class="citation book cs1">Morris, Benny (1994). <i>Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War</i>. Oxford University Press. p. 424. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198278504" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198278504"><bdi>978-0198278504</bdi></a>. <q>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'.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Israel%27s+Border+Wars%2C+1949-1956%3A+Arab+Infiltration%2C+Israeli+Retaliation%2C+and+the+Countdown+to+the+Suez+War&rft.pages=424&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-0198278504&rft.aulast=Morris&rft.aufirst=Benny&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKhan+Yunis+massacre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Benny_Morris" title="Benny Morris">Benny Morris</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZHXkyAIl7cC&pg=PA295"><i>Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict</i></a>, Random House 2011 p. 295: "In all Israeli troops killed about five hundred Palestinian civilians during and after the conquest of the Strip. 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Metropolitan Books. 2009. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/footnotesingaza0000sacc/page/84">84</a>–86. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8050-9277-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8050-9277-6"><bdi>978-0-8050-9277-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Footnotes+in+Gaza&rft.pages=84-86&rft.pub=Metropolitan+Books&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-8050-9277-6&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffootnotesingaza0000sacc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKhan+Yunis+massacre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cordite-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-cordite_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSacco2010" class="citation book cs1">Sacco, Joe (12 October 2010). <i>Footnotes in Gaza</i>. 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href="/wiki/Dayr_Sunayd" title="Dayr Sunayd">Dayr Sunayd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimra" title="Dimra">Dimra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Faluja" title="Al-Faluja">al-Faluja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamama" title="Hamama">Hamama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatta,_Gaza" title="Hatta, Gaza">Hatta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiribya" title="Hiribya">Hiribya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huj,_Gaza" title="Huj, Gaza">Huj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulayqat" title="Hulayqat">Hulayqat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibdis" title="Ibdis">Ibdis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_al-Manshiyya" title="Iraq al-Manshiyya">Iraq al-Manshiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_Suwaydan" title="Iraq Suwaydan">Iraq Suwaydan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isdud" title="Isdud">Isdud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jaladiyya" title="Al-Jaladiyya">al-Jaladiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jiyya" title="Al-Jiyya">al-Jiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julis,_Gaza" title="Julis, Gaza">Julis</a></li> <li><a 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Street (page does not exist)">Al-Jalla Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Abdel_Nasser_Street" title="Jamal Abdel Nasser Street">Jamal Abdel Nasser Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar_Street" title="Omar Mukhtar Street">Omar Mukhtar Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Square" title="Palestine Square">Palestine Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salah_al-Din_Road" title="Salah al-Din Road">Salah al-Din Road</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suq_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suq Street (page does not exist)">Suq Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unknown_Soldier%27s_Square" title="Unknown Soldier's Square">Unknown Soldier's Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wehda_Street" title="Wehda Street">Wehda Street</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Neighborhoods_of_Gaza_City" title="Category:Neighborhoods of Gaza City">Gaza City neighborhoods</a></b></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Judeide,_Gaza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Judeide, Gaza (page does not exist)">Judeide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasser,_Gaza" title="Nasser, Gaza">Nasser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_City,_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City, Gaza">Old City</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zaytun_Quarter" title="Zaytun Quarter">Zaytun Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daraj_Quarter" title="Daraj Quarter">Daraj Quarter</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rimal" title="Rimal">Rimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabra,_Gaza" title="Sabra, Gaza">Sabra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Saha" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Saha">Al-Saha (As-Saha)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Saha" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Saha">Al-Saha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shati_(camp)" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shati (camp)">al-Shati Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shati_refugee_camp" title="Al-Shati refugee camp">Al-Shati refugee camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Ijlin" title="Sheikh Ijlin">Sheikh Ijlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Radwan" title="Sheikh Radwan">Sheikh Radwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shuja%27iyya" title="Shuja'iyya">Shuja'iyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuffah" title="Tuffah">Tuffah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tel_al-Hawa" title="Tel al-Hawa">Tel al-Hawa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turukman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Turukman (page does not exist)">Turukman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeitoun,_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Zeitoun, Gaza">Zeitoun</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="List of cities in the Gaza Strip">Cities elsewhere in the Gaza Strip</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bani_Suheila" title="Bani Suheila">Bani Suheila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Hanoun" title="Beit Hanoun">Beit Hanoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Lahiya" class="mw-redirect" title="Beit Lahiya">Beit Lahiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_al-Balah" title="Deir al-Balah">Deir al-Balah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabalia" title="Jabalia">Jabalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis" title="Khan Yunis">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafah" title="Rafah">Rafah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Gaza Strip">Governorates of the Gaza Strip</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Governorate" title="Gaza Governorate">Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Governorate" title="Khan Yunis Governorate">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_al-Balah_Governorate" title="Deir al-Balah Governorate">Deir al-Balah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Governorate" title="Khan Yunis Governorate">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafah_Governorate" title="Rafah Governorate">Rafah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Historic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamam_al-Sammara" title="Hamam al-Sammara">Hamam al-Sammara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qasr_al-Basha" title="Qasr al-Basha">Qasr al-Basha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Market" title="Gold Market">Qissariya Market</a></li> <li>Ancient <a href="/wiki/Gaza_synagogue" title="Gaza synagogue">Gaza synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeological_sites_destroyed_during_the_Gaza_genocide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide (page does not exist)">Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide </a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B9_%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_2023" class="extiw" title="ar:مواقع أثرية دمرها القصف الإسرائيلي في حرب غزة 2023">ar</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_Cemetery" title="Gaza War Cemetery">Gaza War Cemetery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_razing_of_cemeteries_and_necroviolence_against_Palestinians" title="Israeli razing of cemeteries and necroviolence against Palestinians">Israeli razing of cemeteries and necroviolence against Palestinians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Mosques</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza" title="Great Mosque of Gaza">Great Mosque of Gaza (Great Omari Mosque)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahkamah_Mosque" title="Mahkamah Mosque">Mahkamah Mosque</a><sup>†</sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_al-Maqadma_Mosque_attack" title="Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque attack">Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sham%27ah_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sham'ah Mosque (page does not exist)">Sham'ah Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shaykh_Zakariyya_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque (page does not exist)">Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque</a></li> <li>elsewhere:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Khadra_Mosque" title="Abu Khadra Mosque">Abu Khadra Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza" title="Great Mosque of Gaza">Great Mosque of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shamah_Mosque" title="Al-Shamah Mosque">Al-Shamah Mosque</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umm_al-Nasr_Mosque" title="Umm al-Nasr Mosque">Umm al-Nasr Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Churches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius">Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius_airstrike" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike">Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_Church,_Gaza" title="Holy Family Church, Gaza">Holy Family Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Baptist_Church" title="Gaza Baptist Church">Gaza Baptist Church</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li>elsewhere in the Gaza Strip:</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a> (destroyed in 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Centre_for_Human_Rights" title="Palestinian Centre for Human Rights">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Mezan_Center_for_Human_Rights" title="Al Mezan Center for Human Rights">Al Mezan Center for Human Rights</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Police <br /> and courts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip">Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_punishment_in_Palestine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capital punishment in Palestine (page does not exist)">Capital punishment in Palestine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faiq_al-Mabhouh" class="mw-redirect" title="Faiq al-Mabhouh">Faiq al-Mabhouh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police in the Israel–Hamas war (page does not exist)">Police in the Israel–Hamas war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Societal_breakdown_in_the_Gaza_Strip_during_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war">Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Economy of the Gaza Strip">Economy of the Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxation in Palestine">Taxation in Palestine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Education_in_Gaza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Education in Gaza (page does not exist)">Education in Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=UNWRA_schools&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="UNWRA schools (page does not exist)">UNWRA schools</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_schools_in_the_Gaza_Strip&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christian schools in the Gaza Strip (page does not exist)">Christian schools</a></li> <li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_University_%E2%80%93_Gaza" title="Al-Azhar University – Gaza">Al-Azhar University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_University_of_Gaza" title="Islamic University of Gaza">Islamic University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_University" title="Al-Aqsa University">Al-Aqsa University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Libraries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Deir_al-Balah_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deir al-Balah Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Deir al-Balah Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية دير البلح العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaza_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaza Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Gaza Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية غزة العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khan_Yunis_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khan Yunis Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Khan Yunis Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية خان يونس العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rafah_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafah Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Rafah Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية رفح العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samir_Mansour_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samir Mansour Library (page does not exist)">Samir Mansour Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة سمير منصور (غزة)">ar</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Health care</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Ministry_of_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza Ministry of Health">Gaza Ministry of Health</a></li> <li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital" title="Al-Ahli Arab Hospital">Al-Ahli Arab Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Hospital">Al-Aqsa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rantisi_Hospital" title="Al-Rantisi Hospital">Al-Rantisi Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital" title="Al-Shifa Hospital">Al-Shifa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Adwan_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamal Adwan Hospital">Kamal Adwan Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Awda_Hospital" title="Al-Awda Hospital">Al-Awda Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish-Palestinian_Friendship_Hospital" title="Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital">Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Gaza_Strip_polio_epidemic" title="2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic">2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Recreation <br /> and culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Museum_of_Archaeology" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza Museum of Archaeology">Gaza Museum of Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Bustan_resort" title="Al-Bustan resort">Al-Bustan resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bisan_City_tourist_village" title="Bisan City tourist village">Bisan City tourist village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Deira_Hotel" title="Al Deira Hotel">Al Deira Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_Equestrian_Club" title="Faisal Equestrian Club">Faisal Equestrian Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Mall" title="Gaza Mall">Gaza Mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Andalusia_mall" title="Al-Andalusia mall">Al-Andalusia mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Stadium" title="Palestine Stadium">Palestine Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashad_Shawa_Cultural_Center" title="Rashad Shawa Cultural Center">Rashad Shawa Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roots_Club" title="Roots Club">Roots Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/As-Sadaka" title="As-Sadaka">As-Sadaka</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaza_YMCA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaza YMCA (page does not exist)">Gaza YMCA</a></li> <li>Gaza Strip</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Transport <br /> and trade</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat_International_Airport" title="Yasser Arafat International Airport">Yasser Arafat International Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Gaza" title="Port of Gaza">Port of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza-Israel_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza-Israel barrier">Gaza-Israel barrier</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erez_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Erez crossing">Erez crossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerem_Shalom_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerem Shalom crossing">Kerem Shalom crossing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egypt-Palestine_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt-Palestine relations">Egypt-Palestine relations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rafah_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Rafah crossing">Rafah crossing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Blockade of the Gaza Strip">Blockade of the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_smuggling_tunnels" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza smuggling tunnels">Gaza smuggling tunnels</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wadi_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Wadi Gaza">Wadi Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war">Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Occupation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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