Palestine 2004: the facts

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Palestinian & Israeli casualties

Israeli soldiers killed by Palestinian attacks in 2004: 60

Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian attacks in 2004: 37

Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in 2004: 808

(Source: monthly casualty figures collected by B'Tselem)

Restrictions on movement (Checkpoints)

Permanently staffed checkpoints in the West Bank: 39

Additional permanently staffed checkpoints within the city of Al- Khalil (Hebron): 12

Watch towers in the occupied territories: 9

Roads and road sections in the West Bank on which Palestinian travel is restricted or entirely prohibited: 41 (covering more than 700 kilometres)

Palestinians who have died seeking medical care during delays at checkpoints since the Second Intifada began: 83

Construction workers who lost their jobs when the four-kilometre Al- Muntar crossing was closed for three months in summer 2004: more than 160,000

Palestinians seeking to cross Israeli checkpoints each day: approximately 5000

Length of second phase of the Separation Wall that commenced construction in 2004: 230 kilometres

Cost of this second section: $100 million

Area of Palestinian land "annexed" by this section of the wall: 350 square kilometres

Palestinian communities isolated between this phase of the wall and the Green Line: 58

Palestinian communities to east of the wall who will also lose land and/ or access to essential resources: 108

Dunams razed to make way for construction: 14,680

Number of trees uprooted: 102,320

Proportion of the population of the West Bank that will be "directly harmed" by the completion of the wall: 30 per cent, or some 680,000 people (Estimate by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA))

House demolitions in Gaza

Houses destroyed during "Days of Penitence" operation in Gaza in May: 116

People made homeless: 1,160

Houses destroyed in Rafah since October 2000: 1,800

People made homeless since October 2000: 9,970

(Source: UNRWA)