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200 killed, 750 wounded in Israeli strikes against Gaza
According to Hassanien, the number of the dead is the highest ever to be recorded in a single day since the 1967 six-day war in which Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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Bodies of Palestinian Hamas policemen are scattered on the ground following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on December 27, 2008. About 200 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded in a series of simultaneous Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip. (Xinhua/Stringer) |
Egypt opened its borders with Gaza to evacuate the casualties into its hospitals, while Palestinian armed groups started firing rounds of projectiles into Israeli border towns, killing a woman in Western Negev community of Netivot and injuring six.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attacks and called on Israel to stop them.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad also expressed the same stance, saying his cabinet was holding intensive contacts with Arab and international diplomats to halt the Israeli assaults.