12th day under attack: death toll in Gaza reaches 700

The five, from the same family which include a father and his three children, were killed when Israeli tanks invading the Gaza strip shelled homes located in Beit Lahyia town in the northern part of the Gaza strip.


With those five killed this evening medical sources in Gaza said that the death toll now has reached 700, at least half of them were children and women, and more than 2900 injured among them 200 in critical conditions.

The Israeli army embarked on its military offensive on Saturday December 27th 2008. Israeli warplanes started by shelling all the Palestinian security posts there. In the following days the shelling was expanded.

Hospitals, homes, blacksmith workshops, schools, and mosques where targeted. Day and night all the Palestinian coastal region were under attack. On Saturday January 3rd, 2009 Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza strip and divided it into two sections.

The latest civilian target was hit on Tuesday Jan. 3rd 2009, the Israeli troops launched an attack on a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA in the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya. The attack left 43 Palestinians dead and around 100 wounded.

Doctors said all the dead were either people sheltering in the school or residents of the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp.


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Israeli strikes have killed at least 43 people taking refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip, medics say.

Ignoring international calls for a cease-fire, Israeli soldiers edged closer to Gaza’s major population centers. A total of 64 Palestinians were killed Tuesday in fighting — with just two confirmed as Hamas activists, health officials in Gaza said.

“There’s nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized,” John Ging, the top U.N. official in Gaza, said after the first strike on the compound of a U.N. school killed three people.




Israeli tank fire killed at least 40 people who had taken refuge inside an UN-run school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian medical sources. FRANCE 24’s exclusive footage filmed hours after the attack showed disturbing images of seriously wounded people – including children – being rushed into a hospital in northern Gaza as the situation on the ground worsened.

Israeli tanks roll into Khan Yunis

Israeli tanks rolled into Khan Yunis, the largest city in the southern Gaza Strip, just before dawn on Tuesday, witnesses said.

The tanks, supported by helicopter gunships, were firing heavy machine guns and cannons, and were being met by return fire from Hamas and other groups, the sources added.

The incursion into the eastern district of Abassan was the first time Israeli forces have entered the Hamas stronghold since ground forces invaded the territory after nightfall on Saturday.

Bush says Israel has the right to defend itself

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - President George W. Bush said Monday he understands "Israel's desire to protect itself," offering his first public comments about the U.S. ally's massive ground invasion into Gaza.

Israel has moved tanks and troops into Gaza to target Hamas militants. From the Oval Office, Bush said that Israel has the right to defend itself against rocket attacks by Hamas.

The president said he is still hopeful there will be a cease-fire, which he described as a noble ambition. But he said no peace deal would work unless it forced Hamas to stop its attacks.



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Israel vows to intensify Gaza operation, 500 killed Indian Muslims send bangles to Arab leaders to shame them

The Muslims in Mumbai are sending bangles to every Arab government through their embassy to shame their leaders for their inaction during the Israeli attack on Palestinians in Gaza that has left 500 dead including women and children.

500 people killed in Gaza and more 2,650 wounded since the beginning of the Israeli operations "The number of martyrs has reached at least 500, including 87 children, and more than 2,450 have been wounded,'' Moawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza medical emergency services, said.

"The number of the dead can be much higher, since there are many martyrs and wounded in the streets, but we have not been able to get to them,'' he said.

Israeli ground troops have started to enter the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials have confirmed, a week after the offensive against Hamas began.

Israeli troops began moving into Gaza on Saturday night, intent on taking out Hamas rocket-launching sites, after a week of airstrikes into the Hamas-controlled territory, Israel Defense Forces said.

Israel has started its seventh day of bombing Gaza after killing a senior Hamas commander in the biggest blow yet to the Islamist's leadership.

Witnesses said Israeli warplanes carried out a series of intensive airstrikes on 15 Hamas militants' houses and a mosque allover the Gaza Strip, adding that the buzz of Israeli warplanes, drones and explosions are heard all the time.

They said that a mosque was destroyed in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, and a house of a senior Hamas militant, called Imad Aqell was destroyed in central Gaza Strip, but no casualties or victims were reported.


French President Nicolas Sarkozy says goodbye to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris,Jan.1,2009. Livni repeats her government's rejection of a ceasefire with militants in the Gaza Strip while speaking to reporters after the meeting.
The civilian death toll climbed in Israel's air offensive against the Gaza Strip on Friday and Palestinian Islamists vowed revenge for the killing of a senior Hamas leader and his family.