The 2002 record of Palestinian child kills likely to stand.

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819 children have been killed since the beginning of the second intifada in 2000, according to UNICEF statistics. The bloodiest year for Palestinian children since the beginning of the second intifada was 2002, when 192 children met a violent death. Although the number of child kills this year doubled over what it was in 2005, when 59 Palestinian children were killed, the rate is not likely to reach 2002 proportions in spite of Summer Rains. This is good news.

This article reviews the UNIEF data.

Number of Palestinian children killed doubles
Report, IRIN, 12 October 2006

JERUSALEM - The number of Palestinian children who have been killed so far this year in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip almost doubles the number killed for the whole of 2005, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Many of the children died after being shot by Israeli troops during military operations or were killed in Israeli air strikes on houses.

On Thursday, 13-year-old Suhaib Kadiah became the 92nd Palestinian child to be killed this year when she was shot dead by Israeli troops during an incursion into the Khan Younis area of Gaza.

The Israeli army said it was looking for tunnels and other infrastructure it said was being used by militants. Suhaib was among five members of the same family that were killed in a firefight.

In July alone, 36 children were killed in Gaza after Israel launched a military operation following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants.

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