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13.11.06, 15:23
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Fury as Israelis damage war cemeter
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By Tim Butcher at the Gaza war cemetery - 13/11/2006
Britain has issued a formal complaint after Israeli forces caused significant
damage to the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City, the last resting place
for thousands of troops who died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.
One of the damaged headstones at the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City.
The cemetery is the resting place for 3,686 Commonwealth servicemen, mostly
British infantrymen
The British embassy in Tel Aviv wrote to the Israeli government four months
ago after six headstones and a perimeter wall were destroyed by an Israeli
army bulldozer but has not yet received an answer.
More damage was done last week during an Israeli operation in the nearby town
of Beit Hanoun, when an attack helicopter used its cannon to fire at one of
the cemetery's larger group memorial stones.
Two dozen other headstones have been pockmarked by shrapnel from Israeli
artillery and several have been completely destroyed ,...
