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11/9/06

Palestine Media Center: The International Community Slam Israeli Beit Hanoun Massacre


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The International Community Slam Israeli Beit Hanoun Massacre

The international community has condemned the Israeli massacre in Beit Hanoun and urged a halt to Gaza incursions, which have killed more than 300 Palestinians since late June. Even Israel’s main and most powerful ally, the United States, called the strike a “terrible tragedy that we deeply regret,” but urged Palestinians to exercise restraint. Among the 20 people killed in the Beit Hanun shelling were eight children and five women, medics said. Eleven of the dead were from the same family.

Dozens were also wounded when shells slammed into a row of five apartment blocks in the early morning. Wednesday’s deaths, together with 64 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip over the previous seven days, brought to more than 80 the number killed in Israeli attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories in seven days.

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