Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Month in Pictures: July and August 2014



Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip were subjected to more than fifty days of relentless Israeli bombardment from 7 July until a open-ended ceasefire was declared on 26 August.
The explosive force Israel dropped on Gaza is roughly equivalent to that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The United Nations agency OCHA describes the scale of damage as “unprecedented since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967.”
At least 2,131 Palestinians were killed in the onslaught; 1,473 are believed to be civilians, including 501 children and 257 women, and 279 were members of armed groups. A further 379 persons could not yet be identified or their status established, according to OCHA statistics from 4 September.
“Many fatalities involved multiple family members, with at least 142 Palestinian families having three or more members killed in the same incident, for a total of 739 fatalities,” the agency adds.
The above death toll does not include the approximately 25 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel reportedly executed in Gaza.


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