FACTBOX-Israeli raids in Gaza with high casualties
Source: Reuters
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Israeli shelling killed 18 civilians in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said. It was the highest Palestinian civilian death toll from a single incident in Gaza in more than four years. Following is a list of Israeli operations in Gaza that have resulted in high casualty counts. Israel says its raids are aimed at halting either bombings or militant rocket fire. The statistics are sourced to Palestinian hospital and government officials, as well as residents. Nov 3 - Israel army kills 17 Palestinians, more than half of them gunmen, as part of an offensive in Beit Hanoun. The overall death toll for the week-long assault was 52 Palestinians, more than half of them militants. July 26 - Army kills 24 Palestinians in raids across Gaza, nearly half of them civilians. They include an infant, her young sister and their mother after a tank shell strikes their home in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The raids were part of an offensive launched after gunmen captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border attack from Gaza in late June. July 12 - Israeli air strike kills nine members of a family while targetting a house in Gaza City where the army said senior commanders of the Hamas Islamist movement were meeting. A leading Hamas bomb maker, Mohammed Deif, was wounded. July 6 - Air strike in northern Gaza kills six civilians on a day of heavy fighting in which 12 gunmen and an Israeli soldier were killed in the coastal territory. June 13 - Missile strike on a van near Gaza City which Israel said was laden with weapons kills two militants and nine civilians, including two children. May 2004 - Israeli tank shell kills 10 protesters in the southern Gaza town of Rafah during an offensive launched after the killings of five Israeli soldiers that month. July 2002 - Israeli air strike in Gaza City kills top Hamas bomb maker, Salah Shehadeh, and 14 civilians who lived in the same apartment building.
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