Martyr Major-General Qasem Soleimani

Zionist Regime Struck 54 Targets in Syria, 900 in Gaza in 2019

AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s military struck 54 targets in Syria and about 900 targets in the Gaza Strip in 2019, statistics issued by the regime show.

It was the first time for the occupying regime to publicly state the exact number of targets in Syria struck by its troops, according to Israeli media report.

According to the statistics, 38 km of the wall along the occupied territories and Syria border was built by the regime’s military last year.

The past year saw an increase of the strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. Statistics reported that the IDF struck around 900 targets in the Gaza Strip, a rise compared with 865 targets in 2018.

A total of 1,295 rockets were fired toward the occupied territories from the Gaza Strip, only 478 of which were intercepted by the so-called Iron Dome missile system.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian group revealed that nearly 150 Palestinians, including 33 children, were killed by the regime’s aerial raids, shelling and sniper gunshots across the occupied territories in 2019.

According to the National Gathering of Palestine Martyrs’ Families, of the 149 victims 112 were from the besieged Gaza Strip and 37 from the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Thursday.

Mohammed Sbeihat, secretary-general of the group, explained that the number of child martyrs witnessed a 5% increase compared to last year.

“The number of slain children reached 33, which is about 23 percent of the total death toll, and represents an increase of five percent compared to 2018,” he said, adding, “The bloodiest month of the year was November, during which 44 Palestinians were killed.”
Sbeihat also went on to say that the majority of those killed were in their early 20s.

Figures show at least 807 Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops in the past five years.
According to the group, the occupying regime’s authorities were still withholding the bodies of 306 martyrs, including 15 from this year.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Zionist troops ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Thousands more have sustained injuries.

The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the U.S. embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to the occupied East al-Quds.

The occupying regime has also launched three major wars against the enclave since 2008, killing thousands of Gazans each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.

source: This article/news was published on Friday, 03 January 2020 on the http://kayhan.ir/en/news/74664