Summary
A town in the southern Gaza Strip that appears in Feldman’s Governing Gaza as a site of Administration-era service provision — mosque employment, hospital discipline, milk and ration distribution and a refugee camp (Governing Gaza, PDF p.119, p.131-132, p.156, p.167).
Details
- In 1958 Hussam Abdullah, a refugee from Nazareth, obtained a post at the main Khan Yunis mosque, approved by the Supreme Muslim Council, by petitioning the Khan Yunis qadi, the head of the Islamic appeals court and the administrative governor of the Khan Yunis district with his qualifications and his suffering since the Nakba (PDF p.119 / printed p.102).
- Mariam Samira, a nurse at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis hired in November 1963, was sanctioned four times in under four years; for hitting and cursing a colleague in front of patients on 14 June 1964 the health director decided a two weeks’ salary deduction, which the governor-general reduced to one week (PDF p.131-132 / printed p.114-115).
- Figure 5 shows milk distribution at Khan Yunis (credit: Campbell Hayes/AFSC Archives), and Figure 7 the Khan Younis refugee camp in 1954 (credit: M. Chaumeny; source: UNRWA Photo Archive) (PDF p.156, p.167 / printed p.139, p.150).
- Khan Yunis had a municipal council established by the Ottomans in 1893, as did Gaza City, operating under Ottoman rules until the 1934 Municipal Corporations Ordinance (PDF p.38 / printed p.21).
Related pages
Governing Gaza, Gaza, UNRWA, American Friends Service Committee