Gaza town stunned by shelling

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Written by Matthew Price, BBC News, Beit Hanoun Matthew Price, BBC News, Beit Hanoun
Published: 08 November 2006 08 November 2006
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This street in Beit Hanoun is very, very quiet indeed.

It's just a matter of hours since a number of Israeli shells fell on houses in this area, killing 18 people, including six children and two women.

We counted about eight impacts. The shells appear to have landed roughly in a straight line, starting in the fields at the end of the street and hitting houses on either side of it.

A pen for livestock was struck by one of the explosions and the animals are lying dead on the ground.

There are pools of bloodstained water outside one of the houses, which has had a hole blown through the roof and there are shrapnel marks everywhere from the explosion.

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Israeli shelling kills 18 in Gaza

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Written by BBC News BBC News
Published: 08 November 2006 08 November 2006
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Beit Hanoun residents pick their way past a puddle of blood-stained water Water stained with blood filled the street where the shells landed At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by Israeli tank fire in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian sources have said.

Palestinian officials said a barrage of tank shells hit civilian homes, and women and children were among the dead.

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Beit Hanoun: Israelis pull out leaving trail of death

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Written by Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun
Published: 07 November 2006 07 November 2006
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Hours after the Israeli military pulled out of the town of Beit Hanoun yesterday morning, Talal Nasr was at the cemetery to search for a spot to bury the body of his 13-year-old daughter.

It was the first time for six days that any of the town's residents had been allowed out of their homes, the duration of Israel's biggest military operation in the Gaza Strip for months. The streets quickly filled and many headed out to mourn and bury their dead.

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Study: 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by IDF since June; 63% of Palestinians killed were civil

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Written by Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
Published: 07 November 2006 07 November 2006
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A third of unarmed Palestinians killed during IDF operations in the Gaza
Strip since the abduction of Gilad Shalit have been minors, according to a new report prepared by Physicians for Human Rights, to be published Wednesday.

Between June 27 and October 28, 247 Palestinians, including 155 civilians (63 percent) were killed by the IDF. Among the civilians killed, 57 were minors. This figure does not include minors who were armed.

The report also claims that of the 996 Palestinians injured during the past four months, about a third, 337, are children.

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Lieberman wants racial partitioning

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Written by JTA JTA
Published: 06 November 2006 06 November 2006
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An Israeli Cabinet minister called for the Jewish state and West Bank to be partitioned according to ethnicity.

Avigdor Lieberman of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Party said in an interview Sunday that rather than evacuating Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israel should keep them while ceding Israeli Arab communities to a future Palestinian state.

“I think separation between two nations is the best solution,” Lieberman told Britain’s Sunday Times.

“I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.”

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