AUTHOR javno100



PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL

JANUARY 16 2009 12:04h

FACTBOX-Developments In Gaza Fighting, Jan 16

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An Israeli air strike kills a Palestinian civilian at Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.

Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 0830 GMT:

GAZA - Popular Resistance Committees says in a statement that three of its fighters were killed in an Israeli air strike north of the city of Gaza.

GAZA - An Israeli air strike kills a Palestinian civilian at Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.

SOUTHERN ISRAEL - At least three rockets fired from Gaza land in fields in southern Israel, an Israeli army spokeswoman said. No injuries were reported.

GAZA - Israeli air strikes and navy shelling targeted Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

DEATH TOLL - At least 1,109 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza offensive and more than 5,000 have been wounded, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. A Palestinian rights group said at least 670 of the dead were civilians.

Thirteen Israelis have been killed -- 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire --- since Dec. 27 when Israel launched a military campaign with the stated goal of halting rocket salvoes.

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