FACTBOX - Developments in Gaza fighting

Thu Jan 8, 2009 3:36pm GMT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 3 p.m. British time:

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* GAZA - A United Nations aid agency said it suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip because of the risk posed by Israeli forces in the territory. The decision followed the latest incident in which a U.N. convoy came under fire from an Israeli tank, causing the death of two forklift drivers.

* GAZA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its officials and Palestinian ambulance workers found four starving children huddled with at least 12 corpses in Gaza in a house just 80 metres (yards) from an Israeli military position.

* DEATH TOLLS - The Palestinian death toll reached at least 715, according to medical officials. U.N. officials say many of these were civilians.

The Israeli death toll reached 11, including seven soldiers in combat in Gaza, four in "friendly fire" incidents. Three Israeli civilians and a soldier were killed by rocket and mortar fire from Gaza at Israel.

GAZA - An Israeli soldier was killed by an anti-tank rocket fired in Gaza, Israel's military spokesman said.

GAZA - Three Palestinian women were killed in two Israeli air strikes, one near Khan Younis, and the other in Beit Lahiya, Palestinian medics said.

GAZA - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a truck driver and wounded another as they headed through the Gaza Strip to pick up U.N. supplies at a crossing with Israel, Palestinian medics said. There was no immediate U.N. or Israeli military comment.  Continued...

 
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