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Children make up third of Gaza’s dead: medics

Published January 7, 2009, 2:46 pm, Gulf Times

GAZA CITY: Almost a third of the 689 Palestinians killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive are children, with most killed since the start of a ground offensive after a week of aerial bombardment, medics said yesterday.

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