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Israel in 'all-out war' with Hamas
At least 51 Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli air raids, the 
UN says [Reuters]
Israel's military is in an "all-out war" with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Ehud 
Barak, the defence minister, says.
Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed and 
another 1,450 wounded in three consecutive days of Israeli bombardment in 
the heavily-populated territory.
"We have nothing against Gaza residents, but we are engaged in an all-out 
war against Hamas and its proxies," Barak said on Monday.
There were also growing fears that a ground offensive was being planned 
after Israel declared a "closed military zone" around the Gaza Strip.
Israel says the creation of a buffer zone along the border will help protect 
it from rocket attacks.
Civilians, including journalists, could be banned from an area between 2km 
and 4km deep under the policy. On previous occasions, such a move has 
sometimes been followed by military operations.
"This operation will expand and deepen as much as needed," Barak said. "We 
went to war to deal a heavy blow to Hamas, to change the situation in the 
south."
Trapped Palestinians
Tanks and troops have been massed in the area since the attacks, referred to 
by the Israeli military as Operation Cast Lead, was launched on Saturday.
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Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City, said that there was 
little the residents of Gaza could do to prepare for any possible ground 
assault.
"In a city that is so densely-populated, a ground offensive would mean urban 
warfare, street-to-street fighting ... leaving many Palestinians in the 
crossfire," he said.
"Unlike other conflict zones where there is the possibility to flee the war 
zone, Gaza itself has become the war zone. There is nowhere for the 
population to go, they are in the middle of all these attacks."
Israel said it began pounding the Gaza Strip with missiles fired from 
warplanes and helicopter gunships in order to halt the rocket and mortar 
attacks by Palestinian fighters.
"Military officials said yesterday that this operation will go on until 
Hamas stops firing missiles into southern Israel," Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel 
Hamid, reporting from southern Israel, said.
"They are also very much aware that they wouldn't really be able to stop 
that, but at least they will try to degrade the capability of Hamas."
Israeli justification
Scores of rockets have hit southern Israel since the offensive got under 
way.
On Monday, an Israeli Arab was killed and eight others wounded when one of 
the missiles hit a construction site in the city of Ashkelon.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, said the 
Israeli offensive was aimed at Hamas and not the Palestinian people.
"We tried to avoid this. You know that Israel accepted the truce that was 
initiated by the Egyptians in order to create peace and quiet. We adopted 
the truce. What we got in return? We got in return daily attacks, we got in 
return smuggling of weapons to Gaza Strip with long-range [capabilities]," 
she said.
Livni also appealed to Palestinian civilians to leave for safer places 
within the Gaza Strip and advised them against staying in places close to 
Hamas infrastructure.
Support for Israel came from the US, with the White House saying Hamas must 
halt cross-border rocket fire.
"In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into 
Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire," Gordon 
Johndroe, a White House spokesman said.
Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, meanwhile, urged Arab and world 
leaders to press for an end to the violence in the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian gesture
On Monday, Egyptian authorities allowed ambulances carrying several wounded 
Palestinians to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing for 
medical treatment.
Hospitals in Gaza have been overwhelmed by casualties since Israel started 
its aerial blitz on the territory.
Egypt also allowed lorries loaded with humanitarian aid to enter its border 
crossing with the Gaza Strip. Lorries with food and medical supplies have 
been lining up outside the Egypt-Gaza border since early morning.
The UN relief and works agency said on Monday that at least 51 Palestinian 
civilians, including women and children, were confirmed to be among those 
killed in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli air raids have pounded the heavily-populated Gaza Strip for three 
days [AFP]
An UNRWA spokesman said the figure, which was based on visits to hospitals 
and medical centres was "conservative" and "certainly rising".
Four young girls from the same family in the northern town of Jabaliya and 
two young boy from Rafah were among those killed in the latest raids, 
Palestinian medics said.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros said the situation at the Shifa hospital in Gaza 
City was chaotic as the territory's health system struggled to cope with the 
more than 1,400 people injured.
"Hundreds of people are just waiting outside ... the problem is that there 
simply aren't enough beds to cope with the number of injured," she said.
"Medical sources here are telling us they are running out of everything, 
from gauzes to saline solutions, and critically now they are running out of 
almost every type of blood."
A six-month truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip ended on 
December 19.
 

 Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed
345 - 51 = 294 terroristi di Hamas in meno
Risultati da fare invidia a qualsiasi nazione che combatte il terrorismo.
-Stefano