| Khuza'a | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | خُزاعة |
| • Also spelled | Khuzaa (official) |
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Khuza'a
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| Coordinates: | |
| Governorate | Khan Yunis |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Kamal al-Najjar[1] |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 7,842 dunams (7.8 km2 / 3 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 9,700 |
Khuza'a (Arabic: خزاعة) is a Palestinian town in the Khan Yunis Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Khuza'a had a population of 9,700 inhabitants,[2]. The village of Khuza'a is around 500 metres from the border with Israel.
Peter Beaumont and Fida Qishta report that during the 2009 invasion of Gaza Israeli military bulldozed houses in Khuza'a with civilians still inside; civilians were shot despite carrying white flags.[3]
Pictures taken by photographer Bruno Stevens in the aftermath show heavy damage - and still burning phosphorus. "What I can tell you is that many, many houses were shelled and that they used white phosphorus," said Stevens yesterday, one of the first western journalists to get into Gaza. "It appears to have been indiscriminate." Stevens added that homes near the village that had not been hit by shell fire had been set on fire.
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