Khan Yunis massacre

The 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. 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 killed in Rafah).According to Joe Sacco's graphic novel (Footnotes in Gaza ), Israeli soldiers shot a number of Palestinian men in their homes and lined up others and executed them. Israeli authorities claim IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a

Khan Yunis massacre

The 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. 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 killed in Rafah).According to Joe Sacco's graphic novel (Footnotes in Gaza ), Israeli soldiers shot a number of Palestinian men in their homes and lined up others and executed them. Israeli authorities claim IDF soldiers ran into local militants and a