January 6: Hamas claims it has hit seven Israeli tanks and killed ten Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli army says "friendly" tank fire kills three soldiers. Major battles between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli troops begin inside Gaza City.
Amnesty International calls on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel over its operations in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli tanks enter the city of Khan Yunis, the largest city in southern Gaza.
Palestinian Grad rockets hit the three Israeli towns of Netivot, Ofakim and Eshkol.
Israeli tanks kill at least six Palestinian fighters in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah.
Hamas says Israeli air strikes target 29 houses in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian fighters say they have killed 4 other Israeli troops.
The Israeli army confirms the death of an Israeli paratroop officer during clashes in northern Gaza.
Israeli air strikes kill five people inside two UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip. Israel arrests a correspondent of the al-Alam News Network for defying a ban imposed on covering the Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it has killed Ayman Siam, a Hamas artillery unit commander, in an aerial attack on Jabaliya, northern Gaza.
Hamas reveals a video showing "the remains of an Israeli drone shot down by Palestinian fighters" in the Gaza Strip.
At least 12 members of a family die in Israel's artillery barrage against the eastern Gazan neighborhood of al-Zeitoun.
At least 43 people are killed in another Israeli attack on a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip. The death toll for the attacks on the three UN schools amount to at least 48.
The Hamas military wing says one of its fighters has destroyed an Israeli army tank. The Palestinian is killed in the clash.
The Israeli military confirms that resistance fighters have killed an Israeli soldier and wounded 4 others in clashes north of Gaza City.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expels the Israeli ambassador to Caracas.
The EU embarks on a peace mission to Egypt and Israel to broker a truce in the war-torn Gaza Strip.
January 7: Israel kills one Palestinian and wounds three others as fierce clashes continue in the Gaza Strip.
UN Security Council members and Arab states also call on both Israel and Hamas to declare a ceasefire.
Denmark summons the Israeli ambassador to Copenhagen in protest at an attack on clinics run by a Danish charity in Gaza.
Clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli forces continue.
Four Qassam rockets hit near the Israeli port of Ashdod and an open area in the western Negev's Eshkol Regional Council region. An additional rocket is fired into the city of al-Majdal.
Israeli tanks withdraw from the southern the Gazan city of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli military halts attacks in parts of Gaza for a daily three-hour period. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) denounces the lull as not enough for humanitarian aid to be distributed among Palestinian refugees.
Hamas says it will stop firing rockets into Israel during the period Tel Aviv suspends its attacks to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Two Palestinians are killed in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, after Israel's "humanitarian respite" ends.
The military wing of Hamas says the resistance fighters have destroyed an Israeli Merkava 4 tank in Gaza City fighting.
Israel's security cabinet approves expanding a ground offensive against the Gaza Strip to push deeper into populated areas.
A Palestinian Red Crescent worker dies and two others are wounded in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes commence the shelling of the populated border region of Rafah.
Israel kills five members of a family in an air raid in the northern Gazan town of Jabaliya.
Palestinians fire at least 25 rockets into southern Israel. Nine people are treated for shock, but no other casualties are reported.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warns that "all possibilities" are open against Israel.
January 8: The UN Security Council seeks a non-binding resolution against Israel. Resolution 1860 would call for an immediate and durable ceasefire in Gaza leading to a "full withdrawal" of Israeli troops.
UNRWA suspends operations in Gaza after a UN-flagged convoy is hit by Israeli tanks. One person is killed in the attack.
Several rockets fly from Lebanon into northern Israel, wounding two people. Hamas denies any involvement.
Tel Aviv fires five rockets into Lebanon in retaliation.
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it has attacked an Israeli naval ship with mortars on the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian fighters fire half a dozen homemade rockets into southern Israel.
The Red Cross finds four emaciated children in the Zeitoun district of Gaza City lying beside their dead mothers in a house containing 12 bodies. Israeli soldiers order the rescue team to leave the area.
Hamas anti-tank missiles kill an Israeli army officer and wounds one more in the former Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
New Israeli raids on the impoverished enclave kills 20 people, many of whom were women and children.
Several mortar shells are fired at the Eshkol region in the western Negev, wounding four Israeli soldiers. Five more people are treated for shock.
Israeli air strikes target civilian areas in the center of Gaza City. Hamas says it has targeted a group of Israeli soldiers east of the Tofah district of Gaza City. Another Israeli soldier was targeted by Palestinian snipers in the city of Jabaliya north of Gaza City.
The Israeli military says Palestinian fighters have killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded several more in clashes and rocket attacks on Israel.
January 9: Early hour clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli forces leave two women, a Moroccan and a Russian killed. The Moroccan woman is killed with two members of her family in Gaza City.
15 mosques are reduced to rubbles in nighttime bombardment of Gaza.
The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1860 and calls for an immediate and durable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The United States abstained from voting on the ceasefire resolution.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni responds that Tel Aviv will not abide by the resolution.
Hamas says its Grad rockets have hit the Tel Nof Israeli airbase near Tel Aviv. The base is believed to be home to nuclear arms.
The UN says Israeli forces have moved around 110 Palestinians into a house and shell it repeatedly 24 hours later, killing about 30 people.
UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness says Israel attempted to justify its attack on a UN school by releasing footage of Palestinians firing from the school. He dismisses the tape as irrelevant as it dates back to 2007.
Gunness adds that when confronted, Tel Aviv admitted that its shelling of the UN school, which killed dozens of Gazan civilians, was "unprovoked".
The International Committee of the Red Cross limits its operations in the Gaza Strip after Israeli forces open fire on one its vehicles.
Israeli helicopters pound Gaza.
Israel violates its self-declared three-hour lull by attacking the cities of Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya in the north and the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Tel Aviv will not take Resolution 1860 into consideration.
Hamas fighters fire rockets into Israeli cities of Kerem Shalom and Ashdod. No casualties are reported.
Israel bombs a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
Israel's security cabinet decides to continue the offensive in Gaza.
January 10: Israeli forces attempt to enter Gaza City through Sofa and Kissufim. Palestinian fighters clash with the invading troops.
The Israeli military says it had carried out more than 70 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on the previous day.
Egypt hosts separate talks with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas and a Hamas delegation in Cairo.
Resistance fighters, including Hamas fire at least seven rockets into Israel, lightly wounding two people.
Israel kills eight members of the same Palestinian family, including a 12-year-old child, in the northern town of Jabaliya.
The United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) resumes relief operations inside the besieged sliver of land.
Hamas says it killed at least 12 Israeli military forces in fresh clashes with the Israeli army.
Palestinian fighters fire eight rockets into Israel, slightly injuring two people. Ten others are treated for shock.
The Israeli air force drops flyers on the Gaza Strip, warning the residents of a "new phase of attacks" on the beleaguered territory.
The Israeli air force pounds the populated border region of Rafah in Gaza.
Israel once again violates the three-hour truce by shelling the coastal strip.
Hamas says it has targeted an Israeli military base located some 50 kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
A rocket launched by Palestinian fighters form the Gaza Strip injures at least 14 people in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
The Israeli military says it has killed senior Hamas fighter Amir Mansi in Gaza City.
Israeli white phosphorous shells kill three and injure 60 others in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
courtesy : pressTV.ir
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