TPO April 29, 2025
The resistance for Khan Yunis began on 1 December 2023 as part of the Zionist entity’s ongoing occupation on the Gaza Strip.
December 2023
December first, 2023, occupation army started launching artillery and air raids on Khan Yunis, as of 3 December the enemy entity launched its ground aggression, while Hamas announced that it had targeted Israeli troops and armored vehicles with mortar shells and Yassin rocket-propelled grenades. on the 5th, idf claimed that they had reached the center of the city, while stating that this was the most intense battle, with engagements, raids and airstrikes. Five days later the occupation army affirmed the death of six soldiers.
It was reported that Hamas was transferring forces from across the Gaza Strip to reinforce the Khan Yunis Brigade which the IDF estimated would take months to fully take down. Meanwhile, on the 19th Hamas’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades announced they had detonated a rigged house when Israeli occupation forces had got inside the building.
In a separate incident the resistance trapped Israeli forces in a house and detonated anti-personnel charges and thermobaric shells.
Both attacks killed and wounded Israeli forces. Meanwhile, IDF forces were reinforced by an additional brigade and engineering force.
On 23 December, the al-Qassam Brigades lured five Israeli SOF engineers into a tunnel rigged with explosives at the east of Khan Yunis, killed all of the five engineers.
As part of the zionist occupation’s criminal siege on Nasser Hospital on 4 January 2024, the IDF claimed to have significantly degraded the command and control of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade’s northern and eastern battalions with the destruction of tunnel systems. The IDF’s 4th Brigade attacked the southern flank of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade as the IDF surrounded the city.
January 2024
In turn, Hamas’ naval special operations forces reinforced Palestinian resistance fighters in Khan Yunis via tunnel systems while the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the National Resistance Brigades and the al-Quds Brigades fought the occupation army in different areas of the city. On 24 January, 21 Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in Khan Yunis, making it the deadliest day for the IDF since the ground invasion began.
February 2024
The occupation forces raided the Nasser Hospital on February 15th, claiming Hamas was holding prisoners at the facility and that it possibly contained bodies of some dead prisoners. The IDF arrested dozens it alleged to be fighters. The DFLP attacked Israeli forces near Nasser Hospital with IEDs and RPGs.
April 2024
Hamas reported its fighters had returned from fighting areas in western Khan Yunis after targeting 15 Israeli soldiers in a house. On 6 April, four Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in Khan Yunis, with the militants escaping into a tunnel. Other Israeli soldiers attempted to pursue the attackers but noticed that the route was booby-trapped and therefore ended the pursuit. Another militant squad in the area fired an RPG at an Israeli tank, unluckily causing no casualties.
The tank returned fire and the fighters fell on battle. Two days later, the al-Qassam Brigades published footage of the operation, the “Ambush of the Righteous”, depicting a complex and meticulously planned attack with several phases.
Withdrawal
On 7 April, all Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Khan Yunis as part of a general withdrawal of most forces from the southern Gaza Strip, while the siege ended on Hamas and other resistance factions remaining combat effective.
Following the withdrawal of enemy forces, the Palestinian Civil Defence accessed the city and were able to extract 280 bodies by early April 2024. They estimated that about 8,000 civilians remained trapped under the rubble in Khan Yunis. Later the Palestinian Civil Defense crew discovered a mass grave near the Nasser Medical Complex and had recovered over 310 bodies by 23 April. On 22 July, the IDF began a renewed invasion of Khan Yunis, marking the second attempt to dismantle resistance forces in the city. After a week, it also ended in an Israeli withdrawal. An official in Gaza stated that the incursion had martyred about 300 civillians, as the enemy army concluded its siege of Khan Yunis.
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