Amnesty: 320 Palestinians Killed in 2006 by Israeli Army
Most Palestinians killed in Israeli raids were civilians, Amnesty says
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The Guardian
More than 320 civilians were among a threefold increase in the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces last year, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group’s 2007 report says that over half of the more than 650 Palestinians killed in 2006 were civilians, 120 of them children and young people under 18. Amnesty defines civilians, “as people that are reasonably supposed never to have been involved in armed operations”.