Khan Yunis

IDF kills Hamas terrorist who took IDF soldiers' remains hostage during Oct. 7 massacre

Hussam al-Shafie infiltrated Kibbutz Nirim and abducted Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Drodski's remains, taking them into the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard at a site as Hamas says it continues to search for the bodies of deceased hostages, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 3, 2025.
(ILLUSTRATIVE) AN IDF soldier aiming out of a window in southern Lebanon.

IDF strikes over 300 Hezbollah sites, kills five Gaza terrorists, captures 50 suspects in West Bank

Palestinians inspect damage after alleged Israeli air strikes on apartment buildings on June 4, 2026 in Gaza City, Gaza.

IDF strikes Hamas's naval police headquarters, kills several terrorists

(Illustrative) Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.

Several figures emerge as next leaders of Hamas in Gaza, but who will end up leading? - analysis


Spain denies viral claim it sent pork, moldy food in aid packages to Gaza Strip

Spain has air-dropped about 12 tons of aid via 24 parachutes, intended for approximately 11,000 people over the last two months.

Palestinians run towards airdropped aid packages, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, August 19, 2025

UK hires US-based contractor to carry out spy flights over Gaza, seeking hostages - report

The British government is paying a US-based company to carry out spy plane flights over Gaza in order to look for hostages held by Hamas, Defense Ministry sources told The Times.

A view of the security gate of RAF Akrotiri, a British military base in Cyprus, September 25, 2024

WATCH: IDF Yahalom Unit destroys two-kilometer tunnel in Khan Yunis, Gaza

The operations also included activities from the Kfir Brigade, which located dozens of mortar shells, grenades, explosive devices, and additional hidden weapons.

 IDF SOLDIERS walk out of a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, last month. Israel will continue to strike fiercely against enemy strongholds from Khan Yunis to Isfahan, states the writer.

IDF destroys over 130 Hamas targets in weekend operations in Gaza

Additionally, an airstrike on July 24, 2025, in the central Gaza Strip killed Salah al-Din Za‘atra, deputy commander of Hamas’s al-Furqan Battalion.

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2025.

IDF transports 52 aid packages into Gaza as counterterror ops. continue

Khan Yunis is also the location of one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites.

Weapons, munitions seized by the IDF in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025.

IDF says Gaza terrorists launched rockets at aid distribution site in Rafah

The rocket fell approximately 250 meters from the aid distribution site adjacent to the Morag Corridor in the Rafah area.

Palestinians gather to collect aid supplies after trucks loaded with aid entered from Israel through central Gaza, in Gaza City, July 22, 2025

Sources: Potential Hamas deal may lead to withdrawal to Jan. Gaza security perimeter

In January, the IDF withdrew from all deeper portions of Gaza it had been in, in Gaza City, Khan Yunis, Rafah, and central Gaza to a security perimeter of around 700-1,100 meters around the border

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2025; illustrative.

Senior Hamas commander altered appearance to hide from IDF, Arabic spox. says

A photo that shows how Izzadine Haddad, the commander of Hamas's Gaza City Brigade, changed his appearance was found in a terror tunnel under Khan Yunis's European Hospital.

 A before (R) and after (L) side-by-side showing Izzadine Haddad, Commander of Hamas's Gaza City Brigade, in a photo found which appears to show an altered appearance, July 2025.

IDF finishes new 15 km. Magen Oz Corridor splitting critical Hamas-controlled city of Khan Yunis

The announcement of the corridor came as Israel and Hamas continue to dispute the issue of military withdrawal during a ceasefire.

 IDF soldiers operate in Gaza, July 16 2025

More than 20 Palestinian civilians trampled, killed at GHF food site

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of formenting unrest, and posted photos of the alleged attacker.

 Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 2, 2025