The Palestinian Maan News Agency picked up on a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) detailing the casualties of the Palestinian civil war:
According to information from the Palestinian health ministry, quoted by OCHA, at least 33 people were killed, four of them children, and 242 injured, during three days of clashes (1-3 February) “between Palestinian security forces and armed Fatah militants on one side, and armed Hamas militants and the Executive Support Forces (ESF) on the other”.
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), half of those injured were civilian bystanders.
OCHA says that these latest casualty figures bring the total killed due to internal Palestinian violence in 2007 to 86, including 11 children, and the number of injured to 486. This figure compares to 146 dead in 2006 and 11 in 2005.
To put the furious violence into perspective: In three days, Palestinians killed 33 of their own. In all of 2006, Palestinian terror attacks claimed the lives of 23 Israelis and foreigners.
(Hat tip: Daily Alert)
