Tension escalates as Israel-Hamas truce draws to an end

Tension escalates as Israel-Hamas truce draws to close:

Report: 49 Palestinians, including 7 children killed during truce

GAZA, (PIC)-- Forty nine Palestinians, including seven children and eight resistance fighters were killed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the six-month Egyptian brokered truce which ended on Friday morning, according to a report by Quds Press.

Palestinian factions agreed to a truce on 19th June this year provided that the Israeli occupation stops its aggression and lifts the siege and that the truce should be extended to include the West Bank.

According the report of Quds Press 22 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip where the truce was active, 22 others were killed in the West Bank and five in occupied Jerusalem. These figures include seven children under the age of 18, and elderly man and an elderly woman.

Amongst the Eight resistance fighters killed during the truce, seven were assassinated in the West Bank by special occupation forces.

In the Gaza Strip, the month of November witnessed the highest number of casualties as 17 Palestinians were killed in Israeli occupation shelling and during incursions.



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