FACTBOX- Developments in Gaza fighting on January 8

(Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 9 p.m. British time:

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* DEATH TOLLS - The Palestinian death toll reached at least 765, according to medical officials. U.N. officials say many of these were civilians.

The Israeli death toll reached 13, including five soldiers in combat in Gaza, four in "friendly fire" incidents and three civilians and a soldier who were killed by militant rocket fire into Israel.

* GAZA - An officer in the elite Golani infantry brigade died during gun battle between troops and armed gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip.

* GAZA - An Israeli armoured corps soldier was shot dead by a sniper as his head was exposed from within the safe confines of his tank in Gaza City.

* 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 a driver. Previously the U.N. reported that two drivers had been killed.

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.

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