Over the past twelve months, the Palestinian people have sustained horrifying human, humanitarian, and political casualties, the worst since the Arab defeat of 5 June 1967 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. At least 40,000 people have been killed, among them more women and children than have been killed in a single year in any armed conflict of the past two decades, according to a recent Oxfam report. Last month, the United Nations reported that 60 percent of buildings in the Gaza Strip had been destroyed, including about a quarter of a million homes, in addition to…

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