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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

Khan Younis

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes on the second day of the hostage release-ceasefire deal between the Hamas terror group and Israel in Jabalia, in the central Gaza Strip, January 20, 2025. (Ali Hassan/ Flash90)
January 20, 2025, 8:37 pm
Aid trucks flow into Gaza, displaced residents start returning home as truce holds
UN aid chief lauds entry of 630 trucks, including 300 to north, as Gazans take stock of what’s left; Hamas, in statement, vows to ‘rise again,’ says 10,000 buried under rubble
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
The sun sets over a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana)
January 5, 2025, 11:40 pm
IDF strikes Hamas members in Gaza humanitarian zone; senior PIJ commander killed
Army says company commander in terror group took part in Oct. 7 attack; Gazans report 23 killed in day of strikes
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Palestinians collect clean drinking water at a desalination plant that now operates round the clock in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 26, 2024, 11:35 am
Water desalination quietly returns to Gaza, after work by Israel and PA
Repair of Deir al-Balah plant, connected to Israel’s power grid, seen as potential roadmap for Palestinian Authority’s involvement in postwar Gaza
By AFP
Men mourn by the bodies of victims killed in overnight Israeli strike, outside the morgue of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 23, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
December 26, 2024, 10:24 am
IDF strike kills five staffers of Islamic Jihad-affiliated TV station in Gaza Strip
Military says strike in central Gaza’s Nuseirat hit PIJ terror cell; baby dies of hypothermia in humanitarian zone, said to be third within days
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Smoke rises during an Israeli strike near a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza on December 4, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
December 5, 2024, 9:54 pm
IDF says top commander in Hamas internal security forces killed in south Gaza airstrike
More than 18,000 Palestinian civilians said evacuated from Beit Lahiya in the past day as troops raided shelters, detaining some 100 terror suspects
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Top (L-R): Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger, Avraham Munder; bottom (L-R): Chaim Peri, Yagev Buchshtav, Alex Dancyg. Abducted to Gaza by Hamas on October 7, 2023, their bodies were retrieved by the IDF on August 20, 2024. (Courtesy)
December 4, 2024, 7:36 pm
IDF finds slain hostages were likely shot by captors in February amid Israeli airstrikes
Probe shows Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, and Avraham Munder were apparently murdered as air force hit Khan Younis
By Emanuel Fabian
People check a car hit by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 30, 2024, in which five people were reported killed. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
November 30, 2024, 7:18 pm
IDF says it killed Oct. 7 terrorist employed by aid group; 4 others said killed as well
Ahed Qadih, who worked for World Central Kitchen, participated in Nir Oz massacre; army doesn’t comment on two other aid workers said to be among the dead
By Emanuel Fabian
People inspect a destroyed classroom in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on the disused Palestinian Muscat Governmental School, in Gaza City on October 2, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
October 2, 2024, 10:06 pm
IDF says it struck Hamas command centers embedded in disused Gaza schools
Citing Hamas-run health ministry, Palestinian media reports 20 killed in strikes; IDF said to carry out early morning raids in Khan Younis neighborhoods
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant holds a document written by the former commander of Hamas's Khan Younis Brigade, Rafa'a Salameh, at an IDF intelligence base in central Israel, September 11, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
September 11, 2024, 10:32 pm
Gallant reveals document from top Hamas commander warning Sinwar of dire losses
IDF strikes Hamas command center in Nuseirat school-turned-shelter, announces earlier killings of Hamas operatives who participated in Oct. 7, guarded hostage Noa Marciano
By Emanuel Fabian
Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on what the IDF says is a Hamas command center embedded in a makeshift displacement camp in Al-Mawasi in the Gaza Strip on September 10, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
September 10, 2024, 8:30 am
IDF says it hit 3 Hamas commanders in Gaza tent camp, contests claim dozens killed
Targets of airstrike in humanitarian zone identified as head of terror group’s aerial forces, senior intel officer, another top operative; Hamas authorities lower death toll to 19
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Israeli rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi (C) at a gathering of family and friends to welcome him upon returning to his village of Khirbet Karkour near the southern Bedouin city of Rahat on August 28, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
September 5, 2024, 1:26 pm
Farhan al-Qadi says he was taken hostage because he refused to point Hamas to Jews
Rescued hostage describes being shot and captured and his 11-month ordeal; report says slain captive Eden Yerushalmi had been starved in captivity, body weighed only 36 kgs
By ToI Staff
IDF troops with the 98th Division are seen operating in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 30, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 30, 2024, 2:18 pm
IDF wraps up 3-week raid in south Gaza; 250 gunmen killed, 6 km of tunnels destroyed
Troops also recover bodies of six hostages in Khan Younis; military says Palestinians can return to neighborhoods that were excluded from humanitarian zone ahead of operation
By Emanuel Fabian
Staff Sgt. Amit Tsadikov, (left) and Master Sgt. (res.) Shlomo Yehonatan Hazut, both killed fighting in Gaza. (IDF)
August 25, 2024, 6:16 pm
Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza as troops continue to advance in center of Strip
Staff Sgt. Amit Tsadikov, 20, killed in Khan Younis, Master Sgt. Shlomo Hazut, 36, slain in Gaza City; military calls on Palestinians in small section of humanitarian zone to evacuate
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Family and friends attend the funeral service of Avraham Munder, who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and killed in captivity, and the reburial of Munder's son Roee who was murdered on October 7, following the recovery of Avraham Munder's body from Gaza, at the cemetery in Kibbutz Nir Oz, on August 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 6:51 pm
Bullet wounds in bodies of all 6 hostages from Gaza suggest they were killed by captors
Abu Kabir Forensic Institute provides initial autospy findings of bodies recovered by IDF in Khan Younis tunnel; bodies of terrorists found nearby also examined, no gunshot wounds
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
IDF troops are seen operating to retrieve the bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza's Khan Younis during an overnight operation, in photos cleared for publication on August 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 20, 2024, 7:21 pm
How the IDF found the bodies of 6 hostages hidden in a secret Hamas tunnel
With specific, but limited intel, IDF quickly took control of a Khan Younis neighborhood; then found a loose panel in a false tunnel wall, leading to the spot where the bodies were
By Emanuel Fabian
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