What happened at Khan Yunis November 3, 1956?
Anti-Israel sources often cite a “massacre” at Khan Yunis as an example of Israeli atrocities committed against Palestinian Arabs. Here are two typical claims: During the short invasion of Sinai and Gaza October 29, 1956, the Israelis committed atrocities against the refugees of Khan Yunis camp. They lined hundreds of civilians against the walls and killed a great number in cold blood. November 3, 1956 before Israel withdrawal following its invasion of the Sinai, the Israeli army commits a massacre in Khan Yunis, killing scores of Palestinian men, women and children. The massacre occurs while the camp was still under curfew. The Gaza area was occupied and controlled by Egypt between the 1949 armistice that ended the 1948 War of Independence and the 1967 war. Therefore dates outside that period are highly suspect. However, between early November 1956 and March 1957 Israel was in administrative control of Gaza due to operations of the Sinai Campaign. On November 3, 1956 Israeli troops en
