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Khuza'a 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.The town of Khuza'a is around 500 metres from the border with Israel.HistoryIn 1945, Khuza'a, had a population of 990, all Arabs, with 8,179 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 7,987 dunams were used for cereals, while 8 dunams were built-up land.Allegations of war crimes in the 2008–09 warThe Observer collected allegations from residents that during the 2008–09 Gaza War, the Israeli military bulldozed houses in Khuza'a with civilians still inside and that civilians were shot despite carrying white flags. B'Tselem collected accounts from residents consistent with what The Observer reported.Bruno Stevens, a Western journalist who was among the first to get access to Gaza, reported that white phosphorus was used in the shelling of houses. Stevens reported "What I can tell you is that many, many houses were shelled and that they used white phosphorus" and that "it appears to have been indiscriminate".Killings and destruction of most homes in the 2014 warDuring the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, most of the over 500 houses were destroyed when the Israeli military went in with their tanks.