The death toll in Gaza was nearing 1, 000 on Wednesday, including more than 300 children, according to Palestinian medical sources.
Palestinian medical sources said the death toll in Gaza includes more than 300 children, along with 13 medics and four employees of local media outlets.
At least four Palestinians have been killed as a direct result of the ground assault, Palestinian medical sources said, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 460 since the conflict erupted December 27.
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On Saturday, 43-year-old merchant Munzer Hafnawi was sentenced to death in a Nablus courtroom, and on Sunday, in Gaza, Khalid Akka was likewise condemned.
The mounting death toll and humanitarian concerns in Gaza are being addressed by cease-fire proposals now being considered by Israeli and Palestinian diplomats in Egypt.
In other words, the bombers in Gaza, for example, achieve a notoriety in death that perhaps eluded them in life, and they're celebrated in posters and on calendars and on key chains and so on and it becomes very much the individual who's being a martyr.
Clearly, what happened in Gaza was the inadvertent death of an infant in the urban warfare the Palestinians launched eight months ago.
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Several factors have bolstered gold prices in overnight action, including news of mounting death tolls in the wake of fresh Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip which helped to prop up the yellow metal from a safe-haven bid standpoint.
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Little in life in Gaza is inevitable, but death and destruction.
Ya'alon stressed that there was no relation between Israel's actions in Gaza and Abu Hamdiya's death.
In five years as president, after Mr Arafat's death, he has lost Gaza to Hamas, Fatah's Islamist rival, while chunks of the West Bank have been gobbled up by expanding Israeli settlements and cut off by Israel's barrier.
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