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Israeli plans for resettlement of Khan Younis and renaming it with Jewish name

https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-right-wing-activists-are-preparing-to-resettle-gaza-after-the-war/?utm_source=The+Forward+Association&utm_campaign=12ef790a40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_31_06_37_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dab582b726-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

I love this moment of organization,” Weiss confided. “We have everything: a religious-secular core, an ultra-Orthodox core, teams that have been working independently for some time. In the city of Khan Younis, a Jewish city will be built and we will call it Hanut Yona.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.100.4.88 (talk) 15:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NPOVing is one thing

NPOVing is one thing, but outright deletion of material and substituting political rhetoric is another. Please do not use Wikipedia as a platform for political advocacy. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:15, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Your comments are strange, arrogant and not related to my revert. What I removed was large swats of political, unreferenced statements. The onus is upon the original writer to provide references for his or her claims. Until that is done, disputed claims will be gone. Palestine-info 02:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The details of deaths, military actions, etc. are not "political statements". Unrelated digressions discussing "illegal under international law" are. If you want to NPOV, that's one thing, but please do not substitute political rhetoric for information. Which "claims" do you dispute? Jayjg ^(talk) 02:38, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

These:

Buildings there were often used by militants as sniping post and mortar bases to shot against settler and soldiers.

From Khan-Yunis north buildings, two terrorist murdered Tali Hatuel on May 2 2004 and week after shot on her memorial service. One building was also used as cover for an explosive-ladden underground tunnel which blow up IDF outpost on June 27. After each attack, Israeli Defence Forces bulldozed some of the structures used by the terrorists.

On December 16, 2004, the Israeli Defence Forces raided the town with armoured bulldozer and tanks in order to stop mortar shelling on Israeli settlements. In the week before the operation, about 50 mortar shells hit Gush Katif, killing one Thai worker and wounding dozen civilians and 11 soldiers. The operation ended with about 14 Palestinians killed, most of them are militants.

As a result, Khan Yunis have been the target of frequent raids by the IDF, and heavy battle ensued in the area - leaving tens of Palestinians killed, many of whome were armed militants.

As said: The onus is upon the original writer to provide references for his or her claims. Until that is done, disputed claims will be gone. Palestine-info 03:07, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Since you didn't just delete the information, but replaced with with political posturing, your stated objections don't ring true. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:12, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I reverted MathKnight's latest edit. I also believe it was you who said that controversial changes to an article should be discussed at the talk page first. Palestine-info 03:41, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You reverted far more than MathKnight's "latest edit", which was made almost a month ago, with no controversy until now. Please do not use the Talk: pages for disingenuous excuses. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:58, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please stop accusing me. I did not have this page on my watchlist so there is no way for me to figure out which of MathKnight's edits that was recent and which was old. Not that it matters because they are all highly controversial and controversial edits should be sourced and discussed at the talk page first. Palestine-info 15:38, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

How did you know MathKnight edited it at all? Obviously you looked at the edit history to realize that. And once you did so, it was pretty clear when he made his edits. And since no-one disputed the edit for a month, the edit was obviously not "controversial". The article has been stable for almost a month, and you should take your own advice and discuss your recent highly controversial edit (containing irrelevant politicking) on the Talk: page first. And again, please stop using the Talk: pages for disingenuous excuses. Jayjg ^(talk) 16:49, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please stop accusing me. Looking at the edit history it is very clear that MathKnight's edits have been disputed for a very long time by atleast one anon editor. That noone has reverted his edits for almost one month is not an excuse to keep controversial, unreferenced statements. Palestine-info 17:07, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nor is it any reason to simply delete the items, and insert irrelevant political statements instead. Why not contact MathKnight and ask him to provide evidence for his claims? I'm sure a note on his Talk: page would be quite helpful in resolving this. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:24, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please specify what sentences need citing. I considered some facts mentioned here (such as Hatuel slaughter) as common knowledge so I didn't brought them a citation. MathKnight 21:15, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

They ALL need sources, otherwise I cannot do anything but delete them because it makes it impossible for me to fact check them. I.e. the "Hatuel slaughter" is maybe common knowledge in Israel, but in the rest of the world, noone has heard about it.

1) Buildings there were often used by militants as sniping post and mortar bases to shot against settler and soldiers.

2) From Khan-Yunis north buildings, two terrorist murdered Tali Hatuel on May 2 2004 and 3) week after shot on her memorial service. 4) One building was also used as cover for an explosive-ladden underground tunnel which blow up IDF outpost on June 27. After each attack, Israeli Defence Forces bulldozed some of the structures used by the terrorists.

5) On December 16, 2004, the Israeli Defence Forces raided the town with armoured bulldozer and tanks in order to stop mortar shelling on Israeli settlements. 6) In the week before the operation, about 50 mortar shells hit Gush Katif, killing one Thai worker and wounding dozen civilians and 11 soldiers. 7) The operation ended with about 14 Palestinians killed, most of them are militants.

8) As a result, Khan Yunis have been the target of frequent raids by the IDF, and heavy battle ensued in the area - leaving tens of Palestinians killed, many of whome were armed militants.

Those are the paragraphs that need sources. Palestine-info 14:57, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Some citations:

Tali Hatuel: references can be found inside the article.
June 27: Staff-Sergeant Ro’i Nissim, 20, from Rishon L’Tzion, was killed and five others were injured when an underground tunnel laden with more than 1000 kg of explosives detonated under IDF outpost of the "Urhan" junction near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [1]
Source for Dec 26 battles: [2]
Any other facts you dispute?

MathKnight 18:07, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

1. Some references about the killing of Tali Hatuel is found in that article, it doesn't excuse the lack of references about it in this article.

2. What is this reference trying to prove?

3. The article is from December 14, 2004. How can it reference events 12 days in the future?

4. As can be seen in my previous post to this talk page, yes there are. I suggest you insert your references in the article and I believe it will become obvious which passages that miss references. Palestine-info 17:08, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

As I have in the past regarding other articles, Palestine-info, I draw your attention to the fact that you seem to be taking issue with versions of articles that do not exist. For example the article does not state "In the week before the operation, about 50 mortar shells hit Gush Katif", but rather "In the 6 weeks weeks before the operation about 80 mortar and Qassam rockets had hit Gush Katif", and the claim is referenced. It said this before your comment as well. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:03, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

History

Can we get some history of the village in Mandatory Palestine, or perhaps an older reference? Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 16:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

massacre

A "new" editor here has made some dramatic changes to the text, calling the massacre an "event" that is "disputed". Here is another source calling this "event" a massacre:

Masalha, Nur (May, 1996). "The 1956-57 Occupation of the Gaza Strip: Israeli Proposals to Resettle the Palestinian Refugees". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 23 (1). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: pp. 55-68. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

p. 58:Several hundred civilians were massacred by the Israeli army, the worst incidents being at Khan Yunis and Rafah on 3 November and 12 November 1956 respectively.
p. 59:More accurate figures were produced by a subsequent investigation made by UNRWA officials who found that 275 Arab civilians were killed by the Israeli army at Khan Yunis and the adjacent refugee camp on 3 November, and 111 other civilians were killed at the Rafah refugee camp, mostly on 12 November. UNRWA officials also protested strongly about these civilian deaths, in particu- lar about the murder of eight of the Agency's local employees.
p. 59: According to the same account in the New York Times of 2 December, 'United Nations truce personnel said their information indicated that 400-500 persons were killed at Khan Yunis during the first days of the occupation, 700 at Rafah and thirty to fifty in the town of Gaza'. UN truce officers explained that their information was gathered indirectly because the Israeli army restrictions prevented them from carrying out on-the-spot investigations

I dont have any confidence that our "new" editor will restore the section as it was, so does anybody else have any comment to make before I do? nableezy - 22:36, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The reference currently in the article does not use the word massacre, which is a POV-laden term that should not be used in any case, unless an event is well known by the name "massacre. This same refernce describes the casualties as "allegedly" killed, something you have twice removed, though it is in the refernce. The reference explictly says "there is some conflict in the accounts given as to the causes of the casualties. " - and proceeds to give both claims, without taking sides. Finally, there is no source whatsoever, not even your footnotes above, for the claim that "people were shot in the streets". You have provided above some footnotes, from an article by a well-known pro-Palestinian academic, with no formal training in history, who has been criticized by professional historians as suufferign from pro-Palestinain bias in his work- and it is clear that what the footnotes refer to above as an "investigation" is actually the report already refernced in the article, which makes it very clear that it is nothing more than the recounting of refugees testimonies. There are two conflicting accounts here, and they need to be presented as such, without the dramatic unsourced "OMG people were rounded up and massacred in the streets" Nick Fitzpatrick (talk) 23:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsense, the Masalha piece is in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, a peer reviewed academic journal. It is a reliable source. And, according to the source, people were rounded up and massacred in the street. And if sources use "massacre" so do we, NPOV does not mean that because one "side" dislikes a certain word we avoid it. I plan on using this source to replace the primary-sourced information in the article and correcting the heading once again. nableezy - 00:23, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The UN source is a (good) primary source. It unequivocally states "A large number of civilians were killed at that time" and " .. but there is some conflict in the accounts given as to the causes of the casualties." The only other disputable question (as always) is the exact number. Secondary sources dismiss or ignore the claim of significant refugee resistance, which is essentially refuted by the quote from Dayan's diary. Along with the already cited Love, Masalha and Sacco are:

Cobban, Helena (1984). The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: people, power, and politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 180–81. ISBN 0-521-27216-5.
Neff, Donald (1988). Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East in 1956. Brattleboro, Vt: Amana Books. pp. 420–421. ISBN 0-915597-58-6.
Chomsky, Noam (1999). Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Boston: South End Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-89608-601-1.
Morris, Benny (1999). Righteous victims: a History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. New York: Knopf. p. 295. ISBN 0-679-42120-3.

Morris notes that "at least one senior officer Col Uri Ben-Ari commander of the 7th Brigade, was tried and dismissed as a result" of the lootings (and executions) in the Gaza Strip.

The "shootings in the street" may be from Sacco, or from "When they first came, they killed 1,200 youths in Khan Yunis. They took them out into the streets and killed them in front of their fathers and their mothers ... because Khan Yunis had resisted them." - Selim al-Zaanoun (a leader of resistance to 1956 occupation), quote from April 1983 interview with Cobban, Cobban p.180

I believe I have read more on this, but can't recall at the moment; the above, Masalha and contemporary accounts in the NYT and elsewhere should be helpful. Since the secondary sources put little credence in the explanation of resistance, noting e.g. the lack of Israeli casualties, I think the neutral thing is to report it as fact and I reverted to the earlier version; of course particular wording like "massacre" can always be changed.John Z (talk) 01:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pitcher, Thomas, Irving,

Loads of the refs were not defined, not in the ref, not in the Biblio-section. I have managed to find some of them, but have no idea as to who Pitcher, Thomas, and Irving refers to. None of them gives a date, making it *very* difficult to find the source. Hope someone can help. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:26, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Skyline photo is not Khan Yunis

The skyline photo at the top, close to the coast, cannot be Khan Yunis. Khan Yunis is urbanized over a mile inland. 2600:4041:569F:7300:7509:94B4:C4A3:7255 (talk) 21:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

protected page request

This page has become a battleground for edit wars there should be more restrictions on editing it Afghan.Records (talk) 22:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Map

The map caption should use the phrase “…situated within Palestine and Israel”, or “Palestine (and Israel)” to parallel the wording used of the map within the Palestine entry. The largecarea outlined in dark green on the Gaza map represents the border of Israel-Palestine; using just “Palestine” implies all of current Israel is Palestine. 70.171.199.59 (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

None of Khan Yunis is in Israel and none of the colored area on the map is in Israel. The implication you claim is not there. Egypt is almost as close. Zero^talk 00:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The person who Khan Younis is named after was an Afghan man, his name is written as the Arabised version in the article. It’s better to change it to make it more accurate. 2A00:23EE:15F8:4630:64E3:8358:2E5C:85D (talk) 14:42, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's content is based on reliable sources. The spelling in the article matches the spelling in the source cited, Sharon, 1999, p. 229. Sean.hoyland (talk) 14:55, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Who’s out here arabizing Afghan names?

Someone has erased any information about Khan Younis’ Afghan heritage. The Mamluk official who built the city wasn’t Younis an-Nuzuri, he was Younis Noorzai from Afghanistan. The Pakistani ip address got rid of any hints at him being Afghan, then a UAE one Arabized everything??? Sxmiii (talk) 09:00, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sinwar death date should be updated 2024

Sinwar death date should be updated 71.46.122.138 (talk) 19:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]