After weeks of escalating conflict in Gaza, both sides reported death tolls that made clear today (July 20, 2014) was the deadliest day so far in the war. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 87 Palestinians had died and the Israeli military said 13 soldiers were dead, according to the NY Times website.
Most of the Palestinians were killed in an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City called Shejaiya. For the Palestinians, it was the deadliest episode since July 8, when Israel began its offensive, first from the air, which was intended to curb rocket fire against its cities and the danger of infiltration through tunnels running under the border from Gaza into Israel.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that more than 300 people were injured today in Shejaiya.
The Palestinian government, which is led by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Western-supported Palestinian Authority and by Hamas -- the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza -- in a statement described the killing of Palestinians in Shejaiya as "a heinous massacre" and a war crime.
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