Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names and political terminology. Comments are in parentheses.

 

On Day 189 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 8 Massacres, 89 Palestinians Killed, 120 Injured, with a Death Toll of  33,634 and 76,214 Injuries

April 12, 2024 

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Editor's Notes:  

Here are some initial (not final) statistics, which show the Israeli war crimes against humanity, during the current Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip:  

By April 12, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 41,634+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (33,634) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 9, 2024: 8,000+). 

By April 12, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 76,214, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By April 7, 2024, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip resulted in more than 116,061 martyrs, wounded and missing Palestinians, 70% of whom were children and women.

By April 7, 2024, 14,350 children were killed, constituting 44% of the total number of martyrs (over 33,175) in Gaza Strip.

By April 12, 2024, 464 Palestinians who were killed, 3,725 who were injured, and 8,168, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

By March 28, 2024, about 12,091 Palestinians, from both the West Bank and Gaza, have been detained in 2023. About half of them were detained after October 7. This included 1,085 children and 300 women.

By March 8, there were 8,900 Palestinian women who were killed, 23,000 who were injured, but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (whither they are dead, injured, or abducted).

By January 17, 2024, about 661 detainees from Gaza are currently languishing in Israeli prisons as “illegitimate combatants” (the Israeli term for Palestinian fighters) in addition to more than 50 women from Gaza, who are detained in the Damon prison, noting that 8 women of whom have been recently released.

By March 4, 2023, the death toll included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

The total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,484.

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 364 health personnel, destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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GMO reveals latest statistics on Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Saturday 3-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Saturday the latest and most significant figures on the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

This announcement comes as the latest updates from the GMO, showing the scale of human and material damage that resulted from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on its 120th day.

The statistics demonstrated latest updates on the numbers of martyrs, missing, and wounded people in addition to the sick, displaced and prisoners as well as numbers of damaged structures and infrastructure.

Below are figures released by the GMO about Israel’s violations over the period of 120 days since the start of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

(2,325) Massacres (34,238) Martyrs and missing people. (27,238) Martyrs who arrived in hospitals. (12,000) Child martyrs. (8,190) Female martyrs. (339) Martyrs of medical staff. (46) Civil defense martyrs. (122) Journalist martyrs. (7,000) Missing, 70% of whom are children and women. (66,452) Wounded.

(11,000) Wounded people in need of travel abroad for treatment, (life-saving and critical cases). (10,000) Cancer patients facing the risk of death. (700,000) Wounded with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. (8,000) Cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. (60,000) Pregnant women at risk due to the lack of health care. (350,000) Chronic patients at risk due to blocked medications.

(99) Cases of arrest among health personnel. (10) Cases of arrests among identified journalists. (2 million) Displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) Government headquarters destroyed. (100) Completely destroyed schools and universities. (295) Partially destroyed schools and universities. (183) Completely destroyed mosques. (264) Partially destroyed mosques. (3) Destroyed Churches.

(79,200) Completely destroyed housing units. (290,000) Partially destroyed and uninhabitable housing units. (66,000) tons of explosives dropped on Gaza. (30) Hospitals knocked out of service. (53) Health centers knocked out of service. (150) Partially targeted Health institutions. (122) Destroyed ambulances. (200) Destroyed archaeological and heritage sites.

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Some of the injured Palestinian children, who survived Day 188 of the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, April 11, 2024	Some of the Palestinian martyrs, who were killed on Day 188 of the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, April 11, 2024
The Palestinian police chief of Jabalya, Radhwan Al-Radhwan, was assassinated with his family by an Israeli genocidal air strike on their house, on April 11, 2024	Palestinian young man, 'Isam Sha'hmawi, 22, was shot dead in the head during an Israeli raid on Al-Fari'a, two other citizens were injured, on April 12, 2024
Site of an Israeli genocidal air strike on a marketplace in Gaza Strip, file, April 12, 2024	Three Palestinian journalists were injured by Israeli bombardment on Al-Nusayrat, including Sami Shi'hada, whose foot was amputated,  on April 12, 2024
Three Palestinian journalists were injured by Israeli bombardment on Al-Nusayrat, including Sami Shi'hada, whose foot was amputated,  on April 12, 2024 Funeral procession of the Palestinian martyr Mu'hammed Al-Sha'hmawi, who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces, during their raid on Al-Fari'a, in northern West Bank, April 12, 2024

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا"  (الْمَائِدَةُ ، 5: 32).

"وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا" (النِّسَاءُ ، 4: 93).

"إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا ۚ " (الإسْرَاءُ ، 17: 7). 

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

"Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for corruption in the land, it is as if he had killed humankind entirely" (The Holy Quran, Al-Ma-ida, 5: 32).

"And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him, and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a great torment" (Al-Nisa, 4: 93).

"If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, (you do it) to yourselves" (Al-Isra, 17: 7). 

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written human history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of Prophets David and Solomon , peace be upon them, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus, peace be upon him, started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

No matter what the Zionists and their supporters do, they cannot change the will of God, Who promised the Holy Land to Abraham and his descendants, basically the Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

No matter how much persecution and aggression the Zionists and their supporters inflict upon the Palestinian people, they will never be able to force them out of the Holy Land, which Allah, praise to Him, promised for them, and kept His promise ever since.

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (October 7, 2023-Fruary 26, 2024), which has culminated a blockade of Gaza since 2007. In addition, the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime launched so many covert operations, raids, and air strikes on many Arab states since 1948.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

1. Names of people and places have been standardized to match standard Arabic grammatical rules.

2. Underlined letters and letters preceded by an apostrophe are references to Arabic letter sounds, which does not exist in the English alphabet.

3. The English letter i is equivalent to the Arabic short vowel known as kasra, as in Ibraheem and Qasim as well as in the English words sit and bit. So, it is incorrect to use it as a long vowel for such Arabic names as Jameel and Jibreel.

4. The English letter e is equivalent to the Arabi short vowel known as fat'ha, as in A'hmed and Mu'hammed.

5. It is more accurate to refer to the land-grabbing Israelis, who establish illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, as illegal Israeli settlers, than referring to them as colonists.

The term colony is a reference to a large entity or a country, such as American states before independence. It was also a reference to Egypt, and India, when they were British colonies.

In addition, the term "colony" represents a positive nostalgic theme, in the minds of native speakers of English, particularly in America and Britain.

6. It is more accurate to use the verb "abduct" than the verb "detain," in reference to taking Palestinian citizens by force to prisons and interrogation centers, by Israeli occupation regime soldiers. This is because the presence of the Israeli occupation regime forces is illegal in the Palestinian territories, and they have no jurisdiction over the Palestinian people.

Click here for more about using the apostrophe and the underlining of letters in the transliteration of Arabic names.

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Killing and Injuring of Palestinians in Ghazza (Gaza) by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces

On April 12, 2024, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in 8 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 89 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 120 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 33,634 and the injuries to 76,214, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 33,634 martyrs

Friday 12-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Friday that 89 martyrs and 120 wounded civilians were transported to hospitals during the past 24 hours, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 33,634 martyrs and the number of wounded surged to 76,214 people.

The Gaza Strip has been under brutal bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.

Besides the large number of casualties and the huge displacement of people, basic food, fuel, water and medical supplies have run out for the 2.3 million residents in Gaza due to the tight Israeli blockade and the massive destruction of infrastructure and facilities.

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Israel commits eight massacres against civilians in Gaza in 24 hours

GAZA, Friday, April 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation army committed eight massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing around 89 civilians and injuring 120 others in the last 24 hours.  

Medical sources announced today that the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, has risen to 33,634, most of whom were children and women. At least 76,214 people were also injured.

Thousands of civilians are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads as the occupation continues to obstruct the access of ambulances and civil defense crews.

Y.S.

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IOFs assassinate head of Jabalya police in Gaza

Friday 12-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) assassinated Jabalya police chief Radhwan Al-Radhwan who is in charge of distributing aid supplies in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Radhwan was killed on Thursday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting his family house as part of the Israeli policy of targeting the civil administration in charge of protecting and distributing aid supplies to the people of northern Gaza.

Last month, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated the director of the Emergency Committee in the western Gaza region, Amjad 'Hatat, along with members of popular committees supervising the securing and distributing of aid in Gaza.

Earlier, the IOFs killed Faiq Al-Mab'hou'h, the Director of Operations of the Gaza police force, who was managing the coordination process with the popular committees and UNRWA to secure humanitarian aid access into northern Gaza.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 189

Friday 12-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 189 on Friday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas, and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to attack different areas of Gaza, killing and injuring scores of citizens.

Meanwhile, the Israeli forces continued their widespread aggression against Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, intensifying raids and artillery shelling.

A Palestinian was martyred and others were injured after Israeli war boats targeted the primary school opposite the Orouba School in the new camp in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli artillery also bombed the northern areas of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp and the vicinity of the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip.

Fresh airstrikes were also reported in the vicinity of the electricity company, north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp.

Similar attacks were also reported in the areas of Al-Dawa, Ard Al-Mufti, the New Camp, Al-Mughraqa, and Al-Zahraa, north of Al-Nusayrat refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli artillery shelled the east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp, and intensified its bombardment north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Overnight, the Israeli occupation forces continued to pound the vicinity of the power plant in the central Gaza Strip with fire belts. 

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Israeli forces target Palestinian journalists, one critically, in central Gaza Strip

GAZA, Friday, April 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation tanks today targeted a number of journalists, one critically, in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that Israeli occupation warplanes targeted multiple journalists in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, causing causalities among them, including journalist Sami Shi'hada, whose foot was amputated due to the attack. Shi'hadas` injury was described as serious.

Israeli occupation forces continue to deliberately target Palestinian journalists in the Strip in a way to prevent them from delivering the truth to the world.

Y.S.

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At least 25 civilians killed, injured in Israeli bombing of different areas in Gaza

GAZA, Friday, April 12, 2024 (WAFA) –

At least 25 civilians today were killed and others injured as a result of the Israeli warplanes’ bombing of a house in the Gaza Strip.

The occupation aircraft launched intense air raids targeting a house for the Tabatibi family in the Sidra area in the Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, resulting in the killing of 25 civilians and wounding dozens.

Meanwhile, the occupation warplanes also targeted the northern areas of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation army blew up a number of buildings north of the camp.

Medical sources, a number of civilians were wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school housing displaced people in Al-Nusayrat refugee  camp. They were subsequently transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Ambulance and civil Defense crews managed to recover the decomposed bodies of 13 people from the Al-Balad area and the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younus Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli war boats further targeted a primary school in the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the killing of one civilian and causing the injury of dozens of others.

The occupation also continues its war of starvation against civilians, while hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been witnessing a catastrophic situation in light of the lack of medical supplies,

According to medical sources, about 90% of civilians have been forcibly displaced to the south away from the ongoing Israeli shelling.

By April 11, 2024, according to medical sources, the number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to 33,545, most of whom were women and children. The number of injured has so far reached 76,094.

Y.S.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 188

Thursday 11-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 188 on Thursday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas, and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to attack different areas of Gaza, killing and injuring scores of citizens.

According to media sources, at least eight civilians were martyred and others were injured when the Israeli army launched an aerial attack on Firas market in Gaza City.

The Israeli army also bombed a group of citizens near the eastern cemetery in eastern Rafa'h, killing six of them, while gunboats attacked Al-Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City, killing two citizens.

Several casualties were also reported in large-scale aerial and artillery attacks on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

The Israeli army reportedly bombed apartment buildings, mosques and different civilian structures in the camp in an operation that started last night.

Other casualties were reported in different areas of Gaza following Israeli aerial, artillery and shooting attacks last night and today.

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Israeli army launches operation into Gaza’s Al-Nusayrat refugee camp

Thursday 11-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Amid heavy airstrikes, the Israeli occupation army started last night a large-scale ground operation in the central Gaza Strip, pushing its troops into an area on the outskirts of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp.

Heavy airstrikes and artillery shelling pounded parts of the camp before troops moved into the area, which was largely left untouched by Israeli bombardment during the past months, according to the Hebrew media.

Palestinian media reports said an Israeli strike on a residential building killed at least five people, and other buildings, mosques and structures were also struck.

At least 10 citizens were reportedly killed and many others were injured in different attacks on the refugee camp.

There were also reports of airstrikes in other parts of the Strip, particularly the south, with the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reporting that 122 people were killed in Gaza over the previous 24 hours. 

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Killing, Injuring, and Abduction of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces 

 

IOFs shoot, kill two Palestinians in Toubas

Friday 12-April-2024

TUBAS, (PIC)

Two Palestinian young men were shot and killed by Israeli gunfire early on Friday, after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed Al-Fari’a refugee camp and Tubas City, in the northern West Bank.

Medical sources affirmed that the young man, 'Isam Sha'hmawi, 22, was shot in the head during an Israeli raid before being proclaimed dead. Two other citizens were injured during the raid.

The IOFs also assassinated the resistance fighter, Mu'hammed 'Omar Daraghma, after opening fire on a car he was on board in Toubas.

Daraghma is the son of 'Hamas leader 'Omar Daraghma, who died in Israeli jails last October.

Medical sources also pointed out that three Palestinians were injured during the raids, including a 17-year-old teen.

A volunteer paramedic was detained while transferring one of the injured, the sources added.

The paramedic was later released after being brutally beaten.

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Fresh IOFs arrests, raids across West Bank

Friday 12-April-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) launched a large-scale raid and arrest campaign in different areas of the West Bank overnight and at dawn Friday, which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.

In Toubas, two Palestinian young men were shot and killed after the IOFs had stormed Al-Fari’a refugee camp, south of the city. Three more people were injured during the raid.

In Jineen, a Palestinian was shot and injured and another was detained from his family house after Israeli patrols violently broke into Al-Fandaqumiya town.

Similar raids were also carried out in Qalqilya, with no arrests or casualties reported.

Meanwhile, a large-scale raid and search campaign was reported in Dair Estya town, northwest of Salfeet, and Sebastya town, northwest of Nablus.

In al-Khaleel (Hebron), the IOFs stormed Idna and Bait Ummar towns, tightening restrictions on Palestinian movement.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, their homes in Ramallah-area-village

RAMALLAH, Friday, April 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Illegal Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinians and their homes in the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a group of Israeli colonists sneaked their way into the village and opened live bullets and tear gas canisters towards residents in the northern side of the village, known as the Al-Naqar area.

No injuries were reported in the attack.

The colonists further raided multiple homes in the village, and the residents confronted them.

 The occupation forces did nothing to stop the attack but rather provide protection for the colonists.

Y.S.

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Armed Israeli colonists attack with stones Palestinian vehicles near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Friday, April 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Armed colonists today evening attacked Palestinian-owned vehicles with stones on the Al-Mi'rajat Road, northwest of Jericho, and stormed raided agricultural land in the village of Fasayil to the north.

A group of colonists from the illegal colony of Ma'ale Ephraim raided agricultural lands belonging to Palestinian residents in Fasayil, north of Jericho,

The colonists further hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles passing on the Ramallah-Jericho road, which is adjacent to the village. No injuries were reported.

Sources pointed out that heavily armed soldiers detained several young men during the raid and inspected their vehicles.

The general supervisor of the Al-Baidar organization for defending the rights of the Bedouins, 'Hasan Mulai'hat, said that dozens of colonists also raided the Mulai'hat Arab community northwest of Jericho, broke into several civilians homes and searched about17 homes.

Y.S.

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