NEWS

The following statistics have been revealed in a 2007 report prepared by the Palestinian National Information Center, which is part of the Palestinian Authority run Palestinian State Information Service.

Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian Intifada in September 2000, until late January 2007, the following casualties have occurred:

• The Israeli army has killed 5,050 Palestinian men, women and children, wounded 49,760 others and detained 10,4000.
  
• 351 Palestinian women have been killed, 150 patients have died at checkpoints and 66 others have been killed due to beating by Israeli settlers.
• 36 medical staff have been killed, 9 members of the press, and 220 sportsmen.
• 848 students and educational staff were also shot dead by the Israeli army during the reporting period and 4,792 were wounded.
• As for Israeli violations against journalists, the report recorded 1,147 attacks.

According to the report, among the 10,400 Palestinian prisoners -

• There have been 1,150 suffering from chronic diseases,
• 1,175 students,
• 330 under the age of 18,
• 106 teachers,
• and 118 female prisoners.
  

In terms of damage to Palestinian public buildings, the report states that:

• 645 civil and security installations have been damaged,
• 72,437 houses have been partially and completely damaged until July 31, 2006,
• 12 Palestinian Schools and universities had been sealed off by the Israeli authorities up to August, 8, 2006.
• 359 schools had been shelled and 43 schools had been turned into military outposts, according to PSIS's data.

As for Palestinian farmland, until July 31, 2006 , the report states that:

• The Israeli army has erected 5,001 new checkpoints in the West Bank since October 1, 2001,
• 13,572,896 trees were uprooted,
• 784 stores demolished,
• 15,549 bee hives
• 1,360 water wells destroyed,
• 207 farmers' houses demolished,
• and a total of 247,291 dunums of Palestinian-owned lands have been confiscated for the construction of the separation wall in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Concerning unemployment, until September 30, 2006, the report stated that -

• 30.3 % of the Palestinian workforce has been unemployed, totaling some 288,300 persons.
• The poverty rate across the occupied Palestinian territories has reached 70%, according to data gathered until the third quarter of 2006.