Shin Bet chief says 1,000 resistance members martyred in Gaza since 2005

 Israeli Internal security minister, Shin Bet chief brief cabinet ministers on security forces' operations in Strip over past two years; says 1,000 resistance fighters martyred in Gaza since 2005.

Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin said Sunday that Israeli army and Shin Bet forces had martyred roughly 1,000 activists in various operations in Gaza in the past two years. Diskin spoke at the cabinet's weekly security briefing.

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, also present at the briefing, said about five percent of the combatants in the Gaza Strip were martyred, adding that their number is estimated at some 20,000.

Dichter called on Zionist regime's authorities to "change the method of action so that the attrition warfare against Sderot and the Gaza vicinity communities will cease."

He claimed the Israeli military targets terrorists while the Palestinians target civilians: "This a-symmetry is part of the attrition – all you have to do is look at the fact the 3,000 of Sderot's residents have left the city."