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December 30, 2008

UN: 64 Palestinian Civilians Killed
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Earlier today, Israeli warplanes dropped at least sixteen bombs on five
government buildings in Gaza, destroying them and starting several
fires. An Israeli air strike in northern Gaza killed two Palestinian
sisters, aged four and eleven. The girls were killed when they left
their house to dump the family’s garbage. On Monday, an Israeli air
strike destroyed a home in the Jabalya refugee camp, killing five
sisters. The five girls were between four and seventeen years old. In
another incident, eight Palestinian students, ages eighteen to twenty,
were killed while waiting for a UN bus to take them home. The United
Nations said at least sixty-four Palestinian civilians have died since
Saturday.



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