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2022 has been the most violent year for Palestinians and Israelis since the early 2000s, according to a CNN analysis

2022-11-28T14:21:10.611Z


2022 is the most violent year in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 2000s, a CNN analysis shows.


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(CNN) --

With more than a month left in the year, 2022 is already the deadliest cycle in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israel and the West Bank since the early 2000s, a CNN analysis of official figures from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The death over the weekend of Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma'ada from injuries sustained in last Wednesday's double bombing in Jerusalem brings to 31 the number of people killed on the Israeli side this year, according to Security Agency data. Israeli (ISA) and a CNN count.

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That figure includes security forces and civilians killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank.

Most were Israeli citizens, but the number includes foreigners living in Israel, according to the ISA, better known as the Shin Bet.

For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health (PMOH) told CNN that 150 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel this year, mostly at the hands of Israeli security forces, a figure that includes militants and civilians.

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This figure does not include Gaza, where the PMOH says 52 Palestinian militants and civilians were killed during a three-day conflict between the Israeli army and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the coastal enclave that is run by the Hamas militant group, under an Israeli blockade. and Egyptian.

The Israeli army says some of them were killed by rockets that fell short and fell inside Gaza.

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As for the Palestinians, you have to go back to 2004, to what is considered the last years of the second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising, to find higher numbers.

In 2004, some 197 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a number that includes fighters and civilians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

As for the Israelis, you have to go back to 2005 to see a higher figure, when 50 died, a number that includes security forces and civilians, according to ISA data.

Some of those killed in 2005 were killed in rocket attacks;

this year there have been no Israelis killed in rocket attacks.

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Most of the attacks against Israelis in 2022 have been mass shootings, stabbings or vehicle attacks, although the double bombing last Wednesday that killed two people in Jerusalem showed a type of organized and sophisticated attack that the Israelis had not seen before. seen in years

Most of the Palestinians have died as a result of gunshot wounds by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Israel has made frequent incursions into the West Bank after a first wave of Palestinian attacks earlier this year killed 19 people.

The Israeli army is increasingly targeting new militant groups in Jenin and Nablus, and says most of the Palestinians killed were militants or violently confronted their forces.

Human rights groups say dozens of unarmed civilians have also been killed, including Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot while covering a raid in Jenin in May.

A CNN investigation, published two weeks after the death of Abu Akleh, suggests that the fatal shot likely came from a position known to be the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and the pattern of the shots suggests that the bullets were aimed rather than sprayed indiscriminately.

Israel has acknowledged that the journalist was probably killed by IDF fire, but denies any intent.

None of the soldiers were charged.

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Source: cnnespanol

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