[News] Palestine: 3045 Killed 38,000 Wounded in 42 Months

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Palestine: 3045 Killed 38,000 Wounded in 42 Months
Monday, 29 March 2004, 11:08 am
Press Release: Palestinian National Authority

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00381.htm

Palestine Report: 3,045 Palestinians Killed and 38,000 Others Wounded by
IOF in 42 Months

GAZA, Palestine - - Palestinian State Information Service (SIS) confirmed
that the Palestinian death toll during 42 months of the Intifada has
climbed to 3,045 as 38,000 others have been wounded by Israeli occupying
forces (IOF) throughout Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee
camps.


In a report issued by the SIS.s Palestinian National Information Center
(PNIC), the said death toll included 557 children, 220 women and 344
others of the Palestinian police forces. 732 victims have fallen due to
Israeli shelling as 230 others died in assassination attempts carried out
by Israeli warplanes, including 90 untargeted civilians. 523 were killed
due to miscellaneous Israeli practices in the Palestinian territories.


The report also pointed out that the number of patients who died as a
result of IOF practices on military checkpoints and border crossings
reached 105, due to disruption of movement, 43 victims of Israeli settler
attacks.


As for the victims of the Palestinian medical crews and civil defense
staffs, they reached 29, while killed journalists were nine, as press
rights have been violated by IOF 373 times. The Palestinian sport movement
lost 220 victims out of the total number of killed Palestinians, PNIC.s
report hinted.


As far as wounded Palestinians are concerned, PNIC.s statistical figures
showed that 38,809 Palestinians have been wounded by IOF, 8,435 of whom
received medications on the spot. Teachers and students wounded during the
last 42 months were 5,660.


The report pointed out as well that the number of Palestinian prisoners
throughout the said period of time was 7,500 including 5,920 recorded by
the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Ministry, in 22 Israeli jails and
concentration camps.


Among those prisoners were 1,252 students and 196 teachers of schools,
colleges and universities, as minor prisoners were 336.


Those patients arrested by IOF on checkpoints and roadblocks reached 767,
as the number of women prisoners reached 80, including 24 sentenced for
different prison service terms, and 54 have been in custody without trial
as two others have been under administrative detention.


Losses of Palestinian Property:

PNIC did not ignore the Palestinian financial losses inflicted by IOF
measures during the last 42 months, as its statistical figures showed that
570 governmental buildings have been damaged due to being shelled by
Israeli fire and 61,513 Palestinian houses were partially and completely
damaged, including 5,263 completely and 2,772 partially in Gaza Strip
alone.

These houses also included 56,250 that have been partially damaged
including 16,186 in the Gaza Strip.


Schools have not been spared the Israeli devastating actions, as 12
schools and universities have been frequently closed by IOF while 1,125
others, including educational buildings, have been denied normal
activities.


302 schools and educational offices as well as universities have been
exposed to Israeli shelling as 43 other schools have been turned into
military outposts.


According to the PNIC, the area of Palestinian lands bulldozed by the IOF
was 62,044 dunums, as 991,581 trees have been uprooted, while 457
agricultural stores and 472 pens were destroyed, as 12,892 live stocks
were killed as well as 840 cows and 9,738 beehives.


Also, IOF demolished 262 wells completely and destroyed 207 agricultural
stores including devastation of 171,589 pens, as 22,013 dunums of lands
have been bulldozed, 1,014 water wells and 288,985 meters of farms fences,
and 714,719 others of water lines have been destroyed.


The Israeli aggressions on the Palestinian agricultural sector resulted in
damages to 10,323 farmers, bulldozing of six greenhouses and 12 tractors,
as the lands expropriated for the Apartheid Wall in West Bank amounted to
201,696 dunums.


The report said that the rate of unemployment in the occupied Palestinian
territories reached %60, as the number of unemployed was 302,000
constituting %43.7 of the Palestinians, as the IOF destroyed 8,117
economic establishments including workshops and shops.


The PNIC.s report recorded that the IOF shelled residential and civilian
population centers in Palestinain cities, towns, villages and refugee
camps, for 24,453 times and placed 2,137 military checkpoints from October
2001 up to present day.


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