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Israeli attack on Gaza school kills 40Up to 40 people are reported to have been killed in an Israeli air-strike on a United Nations-run school in the north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources say its the biggest single loss of life in one attack since Israel launched its ground operation.Palestinian medics say the building was being used as a shelter for Palestinians fleeing the fighting. Israeli officials claim that militants had earlier launched mortar fire from the area.According to Palestinian sources, 635 have been killed and more than 3,000 wounded in Gaza since Israel began its latest offensive.The Israeli military say it has killed around 130 Palestinian militants since their ground invasion began three days ago, but local doctors say many of the casualties are civilians.Israel has confirmed the loss of five soldiers so far, with four allegedly killed accidentally by their own side.Living in hellWith food, medicine and water supplies running low, the UN says the situation in Gaza amounts to a humanitarian crisis.Almost a fortnight of air raids, artillery bombardment and ground battles have damaged or destroyed many roads and buildings across the region.Hospitals are struggling to cope with between 2,000 and 3,000 injured Palestinians.Watch the latest update from the conflict zone RT spoke live to Israeli army spokesman Benjamin Rutlend in Jerusalem, as well as RTs correspondents who are in the area now.For most Palestinians, the Israeli campaign against Hamas is simply about staying alive amid the chaos.Gaza is one of the most densely populated spots on earth this tiny slice of land is crammed with 1.5 million people. Even targeted strikes here bring devastation to an entire area.Israel's bombed everything from land and sea. They don't care if its a mosque or not, or whether a person is old or young. They bomb everything. There's a total blockade on us from air, sea, and land, a young boy said.The UN warns civilian casualties are mounting at an alarming rate. It says at least a quarter of those killed were ordinary Palestinians.Israel insists it's not targeting civilians and accuses Hamas of using humans as shields by operating in densely populated areas."While acting this military operation we are trying to take all the necessary steps in order to avoid civilian casualties but unfortunately since they hide among civilians sometimes this can happen," said Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.Clean water, food and medicine are running low in Gaza according to peace activist Eva Bartlett.The UN has expressed concern about what it calls the 'humanitarian crisis' in Gaza. Yet Israel says no crisis exists:The world food programme has asked to stop sending food supplies because the storages inside the Gaza strip are filled with food, which Hamas is not distributing to its civilians, said Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokespersonFor those on the ground, the story repeats itself after every bombing. People lucky enough to survive the strikes have no other choice but to move to another location.So far, Israel has ignored international calls for a ceasefire saying it won't back down until peace and tranquillity are achieved in southern Israeli towns. But with Hamas defiant, the havoc and death on the streets of Gaza look set to continue.

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Israeli troops and tanks were engaged in heavy fighting with Hamas militants last night after Israel followed up its eight-day air assault on Gaza with a ground offensive. The attack, backed by military helicopters, had been preceded by a heavy artillery bombardment.Several hours into the armoured offensive, Israeli tanks had moved just over a mile into northern Gaza, according to witnesses, taking up positions in an area frequently used by militants to fire rockets across the border. A Palestinian petrol station along the invasion route was engulfed in flames after being hit by a tank shell. A spokesman for the Israeli forces predicted that the operation would take "many long days". Tens of thousands of reservists have been called up. The move was almost immediately met with largely unanimous international condemnation, with the United Nations hastily arranging an overnight emergency session and Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon calling for "an immediate end" to the operation.The United States also warned Israel in a statement that while it blamed Hamas for the tension, it had grown "deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation" in Gaza as the tanks rolled in. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack added: "We have expressed our concerns to the Israeli government that any military action needs to be mindful of the potential consequences to civilians ... It is obvious a ceasefire should take place." The Israeli land attack began after heavy artillery was used in an urban area for the first time in two years to clear the way for its forces; the practice had been stopped after 18 members of a single family died in a barrage in November 2006. Yesterday 10 people were killed when shells hit a mosque packed with 200 people in the northern town of Beit Lahiya during evening prayers. The Israeli military confirmed last night that "large numbers of forces" had entered Gaza at "several points", and a correspondent of the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera reported that ground troops backed by artillery had mounted a series of incursions, from the disused airport close to Rafa in the south to the town of Beit Lahiya in the north. Major Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said the aim was to seize areas from where Hamas was launching rocket attacks on southern Israel. Israeli media quoted unconfirmed witness reports suggesting there were incursions under way elsewhere in Gaza. A Hamas spokesman in Damascus, Mohammad Nazzal, said several Israeli soldiers had been killed in fighting in eastern Gaza, but gave no further details. Israeli forces said they were unaware of any casualties among their soldiers. More than 10,000 Israeli troops and columns of armour had been massing on the Gaza border for days waiting for the order to go ahead. Mr Barak is facing political as well as military risks by authorising the long-debated ground offensive in Gaza. A poll last week showed that while 53 per cent of Israelis favoured continuation of the air attacks, only 19 per cent supported the use of ground troops.The incursions, and last night's destruction of a mosque, are also likely further to inflame opinion across the Muslim world, which has seen violent demonstrations, leaving 460 dead and more than 2,500 injured. Witnesses said the Ibrahim al-Maqadna mosque was hit by up to three Israeli shells. One of the wounded worshippers, Salah Mustafa, told Al-Jazeera from a hospital that the mosque was packed. Another survivor, Mohammed Raheem, described "a huge noise and then people screaming, covered in blood". The Israeli military said last night they were still checking what led to the deaths.In yesterday's air strikes, Israeli warplanes destroyed large parts of an American school in north-west Gaza in which one person was reported to have been killed and around a dozen injured. Four others, including Abu Zakaria al-Zamal, a senior commander of Hamas's military wing, died from wounds.

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GAZA — The Samouni family knew they were in danger. They had been calling the Red Cross for two days, they said, begging to be taken out of Zeitoun, a poor area in eastern Gaza City that is considered a stronghold of Hamas. No rescuers came. Instead, Israeli soldiers entered their building late Sunday night and told them to evacuate to another building. They did. But at 6 a.m. on Monday, when a missile fired by an Israeli warplane struck the relatives house in which they had taken shelter, there was nowhere to run.Eleven members of the extended Samouni family were killed and 26 wounded, according to witnesses and hospital officials, with five children age 4 and under among the dead. Hundreds of members of the clan flooded in to Shifa Hospital, all from Zeitoun, many in shock. Masouda al-Samouni, 20, lost her mother-in-law, her husband and her 10-month-old son. She said she had been preparing food for the baby when the missile struck. He died hungry, she said.Ten days into Israels offensive against Hamas, the militant Islamic group that governs Gaza, the civilian toll was rising alongside that of the militants. As the fighting closed in on the city, Gazans began accusing Israel of deliberately aiming at civilians, to turn them against Hamas. Israel blames Hamas, saying it focuses the battle in the densely populated areas of this narrow, crowded coastal strip and uses residents as shields. We have no intention of harming civilians, said Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman. Hamas cynically uses civilians by operating in their midst, she said, adding, Sometimes there can be situations where civilians get hurt.Israel began its campaign on Dec. 27 with the primary intention of breaking Hamass military infrastructure and its ability to launch rockets at southern Israel. About 550 Palestinians have been killed so far, medical officials in Gaza said, with at least a quarter of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Hospital officials in Gaza said that at least 93 people had been killed and more than 370 wounded since Saturday, when Israeli ground forces joined the campaign. In the crowded Shati refugee camp, near the coast, another family was wiped out early Monday when a shell fired from a navy ship hit their house while they slept.In the Tuffah district, another poor neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israelis fired tank shells into a house, witnesses said. A neighbor drove Mumin Alawi, 13, to the hospital. When Muhammad Alawi, Mumins father, came looking for his son and found that the boy had died, he was beside himself and wanted to jump from a balcony, until relatives held him back. He died a martyr, said Muhammads mother. At least this body is whole. A Red Cross official in Gaza said there had been many cries for help. In the case of the Samouni family, she said, the organization was told by the Israelis that it would be too dangerous to go into the Zeitoun neighborhood. A study about to be published in Israel by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, an independent research group that has close ties to the Israeli military establishment and is supported by the American Jewish Congress, presents Hamas as having methodically built its military infrastructure in the heart of population centers.The study presents photographs of militants manufacturing and storing weapons inside houses and of Israeli soldiers finding weapons hidden in a mosque in northern Gaza during a military incursion in March 2008. Hamas not only hides among the population, the study contends, but has made a main component of its combat strategy channeling the army into the most densely populated areas to fight — a model that is now playing out. Shireen Shihab, 30, a resident of Gaza City, said Monday that she had seen Hamas fighters firing rockets toward Israel from a site two blocks away from her home. She said she and others could not express any opposition for fear of being labeled spies. Ms. Shihab, a former supporter of Fatah, the secularist rival of Hamas, said that the Israelis and their pro-Western Palestinian allies from Fatah were using the people, killing them to make Hamas pay a price.Among the survivors of the Samouni family, opinions were divided. Some blessed the resistance. But Hamada Al-Samouni, 28, who was lightly wounded by the Israeli rocket and was clearly still in shock, said this was all happening because of the rockets fired by Hamas. He said he had seen the bodies of eight Hamas fighters dressed in civilian clothing lying in the streets around Zeitoun. They had been lying there for two days and nobody had come to collect them, he said.Taghreed El-Khodary reported from Gaza City, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem.

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Avital LeibovicHamas are accountable for the deaths of Gaza civilians as they are placing its military facilities in populated areas, says Israeli army spokesman Avital Leibovic.

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Israel: 'Hamas Is Being Beaten'Israel Defence Forces Spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovich has told Sky News that their objectives are being achieved in Gaza by there is still heavy fighting ahead.