Israel arrests 30 members of Palestinian government
Israeli troops arrested more than thirty officials in the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
Israel says it made the arrests because the officials had supported the firing of rockets into Israeli territory. The raids followed a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip that wounded several people.
Amnesty International reported that Israel killed more than 650 Palestinians last year, three times the number of Palestinians killed in 2005. Half of the Palestinians killed last year were unarmed civilians. The Palestinian death toll included 120 children. During the same period, Palestinian militants killed 27 Israelis – including 20 civilians and one child.
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