A general view shows the destroyed Palestinian security Saraya compound following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City overnight. Israeli tanks and troops blazed into towns across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking Hamas targets, but hits on three UN-run schools killed at least 48 people and sparked urgent new ceasefire calls. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)From Yahoo News/AFP:
GAZA CITY (AFP) – Israeli forces blazed into towns across Gaza on Tuesday striking Hamas targets and also hitting three UN-run schools in attacks that killed at least 48 people and sparked urgent new ceasefire calls.
While troops battled Islamist militants inside Gaza City in the heaviest fighting of the 11-day-old offensive, Hamas made its deepest rocket strike yet into the Jewish state defying Israeli efforts to halt the fire.
As the Palestinian death toll surged above 660, Arab states pressed for a UN Security Council resolution condemning the onslaught, but Israel rejected ceasefire calls by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other leaders.
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