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GAZA,
(PIC)-- Quds Press reported that the IOF troops killed last
June 29 Palestinians including four children which means
that the total number of the victims murdered during the
first six months of 2008 rose to 449 Palestinians, mostly
killed in the Gaza Strip.
According to the report, Israel during June killed 24
Palestinians in Gaza alone due to its military escalations
while five were murdered in the West Bank. The report also
pointed out that the IOF troops have killed since the
beginning of this year a total of 66 children.
Most
of the victims were killed before the calm took effect on 19
June and after that date the IOF killed four others in the
West Bank taking advantage that the truce had not yet been
activated in the West Bank.
In a
new development, a 20-year-old Palestinian young man called
Mazen Arrar was proclaimed dead due to the closures and the
Israeli siege. His death raised the number of the siege
victims to 200 patients.
The
popular committee against the siege explained that the young
man suffered a heart disease and waited for the Egyptian
authorities to admit him into a hospital after the health
ministry in Gaza afforded his medical expenses and
coordinated with an Egyptian hospital to receive him, but
the closure of the Rafah border crossing deprived him of the
last hope to survive.
In
another context, Israeli press sources reported that Israeli
war minister Ehud Barak decided to reopen the Gaza crossings
on Wednesday in order to transport limited quantities of
cement into the Strip in addition to other commodities,
noting that the crossings intended to be opened are Sufa,
Karni and Nahal Oz.
www.palestine-info.co.uk
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