Gaza horror: Factory owner inspects damage after fighting

Palestinian health officials said 248 Palestinians, including 66 children and 39 women, were killed in the fighting. Twelve people in Israel, including two children, also died in the fighting.

East Gaza:A Gaza factory owner was on Monday inspecting the severe damage to his facility, one of several factories in Gaza's industrial zone that were destroyed or damaged during the recent fighting.

As he walked around and looked at the charred remains of his machines and equipment, Moneer Awad lamented that nothing was left of his plastic factory.

"There is nothing left, there are no machines, nothing. Even my employees have become homeless, 30 employees mean 30 families are at home now," he said.

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Siksik factory was also badly hit, its director Naim Siksik says he is surprised by the targets of the airstrikes.

"I think the targets ( of airstrikes) recently were more painful, they were meant to be more painful to the people rather than have anything to do with the resistance," he explained.

Siksik said he used to "export trucks (of products) monthly through Kerem Shalom crossing," and Israelis did not object.

During the recent fighting, Israel unleashed hundreds of airstrikes across Gaza at what it said were militant targets.

Hamas and other armed groups fired more than 4,000 rockets toward Israeli cities, most of which were intercepted or landed in open areas.

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The fighting began May 10, when Hamas militants in Gaza fired long-range rockets toward Jerusalem.

The barrage came after days of clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at Al-Aqsa.

Heavy-handed police tactics at the compound and the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinian families by Jewish settlers had inflamed tensions.

The true costs of the war will not be known for some time.

AP

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