Gaza, November 22: Israeli aggression has resulted in the death of more Palestinians this year than in any other year over the past two decades, says an Israeli rights group.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, published a report notifying that Israeli aggression had killed 1,387 Palestinians including more than 300 children so far this year.
Most of the deaths occurred after Tel Aviv ordered three weeks of unabated aerial and artillery bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the turn of the year.
Medical sources put the number of deaths from the attacks at more than 1,400.
Overall Palestinian deaths due to aggression over the past 20 years added up to nearly 7,400 the report said, adding that hundreds of Palestinians are currently illegally incarcerated in Israeli jails.
The group issued the report on its 20th anniversary, which it announced through an obituary-like advertisement in the mass-circulation Israeli daily Haaretz.
“We are fed up and people are fed up of us, but four million people [who] live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are to this day deprived of their most basic human rights,” it said.
—–Agencies