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Israeli drones killed 825 in Gaza

04 December 2011 04:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights says more than 800 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past five years, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The rights group said that 825 Palestinians had died from the attacks carried out by the aerial vehicles from June 2006 up to October 2011, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

The group also said that most of the victims had been targeted mistakenly or caught in the shrapnel shower resulting from the strikes.

Hamdi Shaqqura, a deputy director for the group, said, â€œFor us, drones mean deathâ€¦ When you hear drones, you hear death.â€

Israel regularly uses the assassination drones to initiate attacks or to detect targets for missile strikes to be carried out by F16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters.

The Unites States and Israel closely collaborate on the development of unmanned aerial vehicles as part of an annual amount of USD 3 billion Washington contributes to the Israeli military.

Tel Aviv killed more than 1,400 Palestinians in its December 2008 and January 2009 wars on Gaza. It also takes the coastal sliver under recurrent land, aerial, and naval attacks under the pretext of retaliation.