FACTBOX - Developments in Gaza fighting

Mon Jan 5, 2009 6:12pm GMT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 6 p.m. British time:

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* GAZA - Residents of northern Gaza reported heavy fighting. TV footage from Israeli-Gaza frontier showed heavy artillery fire over the area. Palestinian witnesses reported Israeli tanks rolling towards Jabaliya.

* GAZA - Israeli air strikes killed two militants in the northern Gaza Strip, medical workers said.

KEREM SHALOM CROSSING - Some 80 truckloads of humanitarian aid were allowed into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israeli air strikes targeted smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, the military said.

ASHDOD, Israel - A rocket fired from Gaza hits an empty kindergarten in the port city. Gazan militants fired some 30 rockets towards Israel on Monday, the Israeli military said.

GAZA - The bodies of 13 members of the same family were pulled out the rubble of their house east of Gaza City after it was destroyed by Israeli tank fire, medics said. A mother and three children were among the dead, all from the Samouni family.

GAZA - Three children and a woman were killed when an Israeli shell hit their house east of the city of Gaza, hospital officials said.  Continued...

 
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