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Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 1630 GMT (5:30am NZT Jan 6):
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.
Gaza - A three-year-old Palestinian girl was
killed by Israeli army fire in the central Gaza Strip, doctors
said. Her father, mother and other family members were
wounded.
Jabaliya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip - Two Israeli tank shells
exploded in the car park of a Gaza hospital causing damage but no
injuries.
Gaza - Aircraft drop leaflets over the Strip,
vowing to continue Israel's assault against Hamas and its leaders.
The Arabic-language leaflets urged residents to evacuate their
homes and head to city centres to avoid being harmed.
Gaza - Death tolls since December 27: At least 541
Palestinians, three Israeli civilians and two Israeli
soldiers.
Gaza - Palestinian medics say all but 6 of about
60 people killed since ground assault began late on January 3 were
civilians.
Jerusalem - Israeli army spokesman says many
dozens of Hamas fighters killed in ground offensive. Army says six
soldiers wounded overnight, two seriously.
Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip - Witnesses say Israeli
forces push into Beit Lahiya, ordering residents to leave. Gun
battles in the east of the city of Gaza and in the north of the
Strip. Hamas fighters using rocket-propelled grenades and mortars,
Israeli fire from planes, helicopters and tanks.
Jerusalem - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak
says the city of Gaza almost encircled, cutting it off from the
rest of the Strip. Armoured forces have also cut other
routes.
Jerusalem - Barak says operation goes on until
southern Israel can be deemed safe from attacks from Gaza.
Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip - Three people, described
by medics as civilians, were killed in a blast at a mourning
ceremony.
Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip - Seven civilians
from one family, the Abu Aishas, were killed in a shell explosion
at their home.
Gaza - Hamas says its snipers have hit six Israeli
soldiers.
Rafah, Gaza Strip - The empty house of Hamas
militant leader Mohammed Abu Shammala was bombed by Israeli forces,
residents said.
Gaza - Four ambulances and three mobile clinics
destroyed in bombing at Health Care Union, medical workers and
witnesses said.
Gaza - Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad said they
fired rockets into Israel, including improvised Kassams and
Russian-made Grad, or Katyusha, missiles. Israeli police said 24
rockets landed on Monday, including at Ashdod and Beersheba, both
about 30 km from Gaza. No one was hurt.
Erez Crossing - Red Cross officials abandoned an
effort to bus several dozen foreign passport holders out of the
Gaza Strip, citing security concerns near the northern frontier,
the Austrian ambassador to Israel told reporters.
