257 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 49 children and 12 women, have been killed by IOF
At least 954 Palestinian civilians, including 272 children and 31 women, have been wounded by the IOF gunfire.
At least 248 air-to-surface missiles and hundreds of artillery shells have been fired at Palestinian civilian and military targets in the Gaza Strip.
Buildings of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National economy, the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister and a number of educational institutions have been destroyed.
The electricity generation plant, providing 45% of the electricity of the Gaza Strip, was destroyed, and electricity networks and transmitters have been repeatedly attacked.
6 bridges linking Gaza City with the central Gaza Strip and a number of roads have been destroyed.
Hundreds of donums ( according to Wikipedia encyclopedia, "a dunam or dà ¶nà ¼m, dunum, donum is a unit of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire. It was defined as "forty standard paces in length and breadth",[1] but varied considerably from place to place"). of agricultural land and dozens of houses have been destroyed.
Hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including 9 ministers and 31 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), including the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Secretary, have been arrested. Minster of Prisoners' Affairs, Minister of Labor and Second Deputy Speaker of the PLC were released.
The Palestinian governmental compound in Nablus has been destroyed.
Many families in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia have been forced to leave their houses.
IOF intelligence has warned some Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by phone to evacuate their houses, which would be attacked.
40 houses belonging to activists of Palestinian factions were destroyed by IOF warplanes. IOF have imposed a strict siege on the OPT, and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
Hardly had "Operation Summer Rain" ended when, on November 1, 2006 Israel commenced another military operation, this time calling it "Operation Autumn Clouds"!!
Starting on November1, in the first two days alone it killed 15 Palestinians, including at least 4 civilians, and wounded at least 50, including 15 children and 3 women. The Israelis announced an end of the operation on November 7.
However, on November 8, 2006, Israeli forces fired successively 10 to 12 shells at a Beit Hanoun residential street resulting in eighteen Palestinian civilians most of them women and children from the same family -- being killed. The victims were trying to flee a barrage of Israeli artillery shells fired on and around the house where they had been sleeping minutes earlier.
The Gazans, who had just buried 55 of their fellowmen after a week-long offensive in Beit Hanoun, were stunned.
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