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GAZA, Dec 23 (KUNA) -- Israel recent escalation against the Gaza Strip
since the Eve of the Eid Al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) on Tuesday killed 22
Palestinians and wounded 27, A Palestinian human right centre on Sunday.
The Palestinian human losses are caused by the Israeli sudden
assassinations and missile attacks carried out by the Israeli troops in Gaza
over the past few days, the Palestinian Center of Al-Mizan for Human Rights
said in a statement.
The Centre denounced "The escalation of aggression by the Occupied forces
against the Gaza Strip, especially the attacks targeting populous areas" at
the time when the siege imposed on the Strip went on.
Al-Mizan urged the international community to "urgently and effectively"
interfere to halt these "monstrous practices that oppose the rules of the
international law and constitute a flagrant violation of the 4th Geneva
Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War."
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