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Report: 32 Palestinians died during 2011 Israeli aggression

Palestine Information Center – 04/04/2011

GAZA — 32 Palestinians have died and 118 have sustained injuries in Israeli aggressions during the first quarter of 2011, said Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesman for the Gaza emergency services.

Many of those deaths took place in the second half of March and included children as the Israeli army bombed numerous targets amid threats of a new war on the Gaza Strip.

The count is high compared to first three months of the previous year, when 15 Palestinians died and 70 were injured.

According to Salmiyya, several civilian sites had been targeted, including the largest, one of the Gaza health ministry’s drug reserves in mid-February. A health clinic also sustained damage during the Israeli escalation on the Gaza Strip late March.

In the aftermath of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Strip, 18 have been killed, including 5 children, and 52 have been injured, including 17 children and six women, according to the official figures.

Israel has launched so far 34 air strikes against civilian targets and fired at least 90 artillery shells. The latest attack was an admitted assassination of leaders in Hamas’s armed wing Saturday morning in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army targeted more than 15 sites in February and killed seven Palestinians and caused injury to 46 others, among them children. Two others were killed the same month by artillery shells fired by Israeli forces.

He pointed out that explosive objects left behind by occupation forces killed two men and wounded six in January. Three others died that month in air strikes.

Salmiyya highlighted that a number of government and private buildings underwent significant damage during the recent attacks. They include a soft drink factory east of the Al-Zatoun district in Gaza, a health clinic in Tawam, a metal workshop, a brick factory, a tire shop and a warehouse in Khan Younis.

April 4, 2011 - Posted by | Subjugation - Torture, War Crimes

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