Israeli-Hamas Conflict Tolls

Israel estimated it killed about 500 guerrillas in its drive to deter rocket attacks from Gaza on its southern towns

The following gives updated death tolls during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, launched on Dec. 27 to counter rocket attacks from the territory. Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire on Jan. 17 with Hamas announcing its ceasefire the next day.

* TOLLS:

PALESTINIANS IN GAZA:

-- The independent Palestinian Center for Human Rights said its researchers had documented the deaths of 1,284 people in the war, of whom 894 appeared to be civilians, including 280 aged under 18. A further 167 members of Hamas's police force died.

-- The Health Ministry has said 5,300 people were wounded, including about 1,630 children.

-- Israel estimated it killed about 500 guerrillas in its drive to deter rocket attacks from Gaza on its southern towns.

ISRAEL:

-- Thirteen Israelis were killed: 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire. Some 700,000 Israelis live in areas struck by Hamas rockets.

* LIVING IN GAZA:

-- 1.5 million Palestinians live in the 360-sq-km (140-sq-mile) Gaza Strip. More than three quarters of them are refugees whose families fled or were driven from their land in what is now Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

-- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has provided food and other assistance to 750,000 Gazans, 200,000 children attend 221 UNRWA schools throughout Gaza.

-- UNRWA said that 53 of its installations were damaged or destroyed including 37 schools (six of which were being used as emergency shelters), six health centres, and two warehouses.

-- UNRWA said it carried out a preliminary assessment of the needs on the ground and determined that at least $330 million of emergency spending was required.

-- The figure is in addition to the $1.6 billion that Western diplomats estimated will be needed to rebuild essential infrastructure such as roads, bridges, sewerage systems and some of the 22,000 buildings which Hamas said have been damaged.

-- John Holmes, the U.N.'s Humanitarian Affairs chief, said on Friday that Israel was allowing the daily transfer of 120 truckloads of food and medical supplies into Gaza, most of whose 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants are aid-dependant.