TEL AVIV—The southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis is a critical target for Israel’s military—strategically and symbolically. The centuries-old market town is the suspected hiding place of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the militant group’s most significant remaining military stronghold.
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
IDF forces have captured members of the Hamas Shejaiya Battalion in Khan Younis.
The terrorists are one of the main units responsible for the Oct 7th massacre as being responsible for firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 7, 2023
h/t Mauser
