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FACTBOX: Developments in Gaza fighting

Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:18am EST

(Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 10 a.m. EST:

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* GAZA - An Israeli tank shell killed four Palestinian civilians in the southern Gaza Strip, medical workers said. Some 26 others were wounded.

* HEBRON - Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Hebron shot a Palestinian who tried to steal a soldier's weapon, an army spokesman said. The man died of his wounds in hospital.

* GAZA - Israeli forces killed five Palestinian fighters in the suburbs of the city of Gaza and another militant near the southern town of Khan Younis, medical workers said.

* GAZA/SOUTHERN ISRAEL - The Palestinian death toll in the offensive since December 27 reached 937, Palestinian medics say. The Health Minister of the Hamas-run government says close to 400 of those are women and children.

* SOUTHERN ISRAEL - Palestinian militants fired at least 20 rockets and mortar bombs into southern Israel, the military said.

Israel's death toll since the offensive began is 10 soldiers, while three civilians were killed in rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip.

* GAZA - Israeli planes bombed suspected weapons smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, local residents said.

(Jerusalem Newsroom)



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