Seventeen days on and Israel is still pressing ahead with its deadly aerial and ground offensives in Gaza. The ever-increasing death toll among the Palestinians is now at 732. A Palestinian rights group estimates that civilians account for 81 percent of the figure. Over 4,600 people have also been injured and over a hundred-thousand others have been displaced. In the latest series of Israeli strikes, seven Palestinians were killed near the southern town of Khan Younis. A child was also killed in the northern town of Beit Hanoun in Israeli tank shelling. Earlier, six children and ten members of one family were killed in Tel Aviv’s overnight assaults in the Gaza Strip. According to the UN one child has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past few days.

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