115 Palestinians killed in Israel's Penitence operation

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/12/content_2082450.htm

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"An official report issued by the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday that 115 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of Israel's Days of Penitence innorthern Gaza on Sept. 29.

The report said that among the dead, 65 were civilians, most of them children under the age of 16.

It said that at least 450 Palestinians were injured in the large-scale military aggression, including 20 in critical conditions."

The humanitarian situation in the northern Gaza Strip is reaching crisis levels, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations warning of imminent starvation.

About 15,000 people have been living under siege in areas of the northern Gaza Strip without access to food, water, hospitals or essential supplies, since Israeli forces raided the area on 28 September in a deadly military offensive aimed at pushing Palestinian missiles out of range of the Israeli town of Sderot.

Israeli forces have been in control of all movement in and out of the village of Bait Hanun to the east of Salah al-Din Street, while access to the Tal al-Zatar and Glibo areas east of the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp are all but impossible because of the large number of Israeli tanks overlooking them.

Humanitarian assistance remains extremely limited to these areas, according to the UN Office of the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with many people reportedly being without food or water for several days.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/59B460E8-EFF3-47C0-9F20-13AF1560FF98.htm

http://www.world-crisis.com/news/924_0_1_0_M/

The Outcome of 2 Weeks of the Israeli Offensive on the Northern Gaza Strip

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*97 Palestinians have been killed, including 49 civilians, 25 of whom are children.

*At least 420, including 150 children, have been wounded, many of whom have been in a serious condition and some have been rendered permanently disabled.

*At least 600 donums<600,000 square metres> of agricultural land have been razed.

*70 houses have been totally destroyed, 200 houses were severely damaged or partially destroyed, and many civilian facilities, including kindergartens, schools, mosques and factories, have been destroyed.

*Forcible migration of hundreds of Palestinian families due to the wide scale destruction and shelling of houses.

*Retaliatory measures that have included the destruction of 3 houses belonging to the families of Palestinian militants.

*A total siege and isolation of several areas, such as al-Bukhari, Sha’sha’a and ‘Asaliya areas in the east of Jabalya refugee camp; and Quliabu area in Beit Lahia, denying access of these areas to medical or humanitarian assistance.

*Expansion of the military campaign by seizing full control over Beit Lahia.

*Education has been suspended .

"The report said that among the dead, 65 were civilians, most of them children under the age of 16."

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"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population; Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!' Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979; Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet.
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Quotes from Ze'ev Boim, on Channel 2 in Israel.

Apparently this is being "considered" right at this very moment.

Don't have time to make this into a proper thread and run through the procedures:

http://www.whistlestopper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19944