FACTBOX: Developments in Gaza fighting

(Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 2030 GMT:

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* DAMASCUS - Hamas's leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, said his group would not consider a Gaza ceasefire until Israel ended its 15-day-old military offensive and opened the coastal strip's border crossings.

* GAZA - Israel said an air strike near the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip killed Amir Mansi, a senior Hamas commander. Palestinian medical workers said one adult and two children were killed but that Mansi's condition was unclear.

* GAZA - A series of Israeli air strikes in Jabalya killed an Islamic Jihad militant and two civilians, Palestinian medical workers said.

* GAZA - An Israeli tank shell killed five members of a Palestinian family in Beit Hanoun, Palestinian medical workers said.

* GAZA - Eight Palestinians were killed by an Israeli tank shell in Jabalya refugee camp, Palestinian medical workers said. The Israeli military denied carrying out attacks in the area.

* SOUTHERN ISRAEL - Gaza militants fired about a dozen cross-border rockets, some landing deep in Israel. Several struck the Israeli town of Ashkelon, injuring two Israelis, the military said.

* GAZA/ISRAEL - The death toll in Gaza in the two-week Israeli offensive has reached 843, more than a third of them children, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Thirteen Israelis have been killed, 10 soldiers, and three civilians killed by Hamas rocket fire.