Editing Khan Yunis (section)

===Ottoman period===
In late 1516 Khan Yunis was the site of a minor [[Battle of Yaunis Khan|battle]] in which the Egypt-based Mamluks were defeated by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces under the leadership of [[Hadim Sinan Pasha|Sinan Pasha]]. The Ottoman sultan [[Selim I]] then arrived in the area where he led the Ottoman army across the [[Sinai Peninsula]] to conquer Egypt.<ref>Pitcher, p. 105.</ref> During the 17th and 18th centuries the Ottomans assigned an [[Azeb|Asappes]] garrison associated with the [[Cairo Citadel]] to guard the fortress at Khan Yunis.<ref>Hathaway, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QtlY011yusEC&pg=PA38 38]</ref>

[[Pierre Jacotin]] named the village ''Kan Jounes'' on his map from 1799,<ref>Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 173] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222063351/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |date=2019-12-22 }}</ref> while in 1838, [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Robinson]] noted ''Khan Yunas'' as a [[Muslim]] village located in the Gaza district.<ref>Robinson and Smith, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/117/mode/1up 117]</ref> In 1863 French explorer [[Victor Guérin]] visited Khan Yunis. He found it had about a thousand inhabitants, and that many fruit trees, especially [[apricot]]s were planted in the vicinity.<ref>Guérin, 1869, p.[https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog02gu#page/226/mode/1up 226] ff,  pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog02gu#page/249/mode/1up 249]-250, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog02gu#page/251/mode/1up 251]</ref>

During the [[Ottoman period]], the [[Bedouin]] [[tribe]] of '''<nowiki/>'Arab al-Wahidat''' (عرب الوحيدات) were among the residents of Khan Yunis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Marom |last2=Fantalkin |first2=Alexander |date=2025-01-01 |title=Vines Among the dunes: sand/dune agriculture in Rimāl Isdūd/Ashdod-Yam during the Late Ottoman and British Mandate periods |url=https://www.academia.edu/128219356/Vines_Among_the_dunes_sand_dune_agriculture_in_Rim%C4%81l_Isd%C5%ABd_Ashdod_Yam_during_the_Late_Ottoman_and_British_Mandate_periods |journal=Contemporary Levant |pages=7}}</ref>

At the end of the 19th-century the Ottomans established a municipal council to administer the affairs of Khan Yunis, which had become the second largest town in the Gaza District after [[Gaza City|Gaza]] itself.<ref>Feldman, 2008, p.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=D0bEoa0a_YsC&pg=PA21 21]</ref>