Some 120 Palestinians killed, 4354 wounded by Israel
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/12/2000

With the failure of international efforts to halt Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and in breaking the military siege carried out by the Israeli forces around the occupied territories, violent confrontations continued on Wednesday between the Palestinian citizens and the Israeli soldiers for the 14th running day. The areas of the West Bank, the Gaza strip and the territories of 1948 have been effected by the violence.

Two Palestinians were killed on Wednesday. One was in the West Bank and the other in Gaza strip increasing the number of killed Palestinians to 120. Wednesday's wounded among the Palestinians were 30 and increasing the number of wounded Palestinians to 4354 according the Palestinian health official Riyadh al-Zanoun. The wounded include 2700 in the West bank and Gaza strip and 1654 in the other parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.

Meantime, large demonstrations were held in Gaza on Wednesday in which the demonstrators burnt the American and Israeli flags and called for continued armed struggle against the Israeli occupation.

An Israeli military spokesman announced the death of one Israeli settler and wounding of 8 Israeli soldiers during the confrontation took place in the cities of the West bank and the Gaza strip on Wednesday. News reports spoke of two Israeli soldiers being killed and two wounded in the town of Ramalla.

Meantime, the legal advisor for the Israeli government Eliakim Robinshtine admitted that the Israeli settlers and soldiers practice acts of violence against the Palestinians.

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