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In September 2009, the office added a man who died in October 2008, [18] and in 2011, a male accountant who had died in December 2010. [19] This raised the number of victims from the World Trade Center site to 2,606, [4] and the overall 9/11 death toll to 2,996.
Rafah massacre. The Rafah massacre occurred on November 12, 1956, during Israel's occupation of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Protectorate following the Suez Crisis. The town of Rafah, lying on the Egypt–Gaza border, had been one of two invasion points during the initial incursion by the Israel Defense Forces into the Strip on November 1.
Gaza War (2008–2009) Humanitarian crisis and deterioration of infrastructure and basic services in Gaza. [8] Temporary reduction in the number of rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip. Over 50,800 Gaza residents displaced. [27] * 255 (PCHR) [22] or 265 (B'Tselem) [21] police officers were killed.
Casualties of the Gaza War (2008–2009) Gaza War fatalities estimates made by human rights NGOs and by the involved combatants: * B'Tselem was unable to classify 32 deaths, including four children, as combatant or non-combatant. [1] ** The IDF regards Gazan police as part of the Hamas armed forces. [6] *** The figure refers to police officers ...
The Second Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الثانية, romanized: Al-Intifāḍa aṯ-Ṯhāniya, lit. 'The Second Uprising'; Hebrew: האינתיפאדה השנייה Ha-Intifada ha-Shniya), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, [11] was a major uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and ...
The total civilian death toll would surpass Ukraine's total of 9,614, as of 10 September 2023, [56] including around 600 children, [57] some days later, but in a fraction of the Ukraine invasion's duration. In a statement, UNICEF regional director Adele Khodr stated Gaza's child death toll was a "growing stain on our collective conscience". [58]
Given that almost certainly both sides have tended to exaggerate enemy military casualties while minimizing their own and grossly underestimating its responsibility for civilian losses, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society set the conservative estimate of death toll in this time period at about 150,000 - 200,000 civilians, 20,000 to 40,000 ...
The final death toll was thirteen. [8] It was the first major shutdown of a U.S. sugar refinery since American Sugar Refining Inc.'s Domino Sugar shut down its plant in Chalmette, Louisiana, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. [12] After seven days, on February 14, 2008, the worst of the fire had been extinguished.