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Sunday, January 11, 2009

War on Gaza - timeline III.

January 3: A senior leader of the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas is killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza.

Hamas warns Israel not to "commit the stupidity" of taking its offensive to the next level. The group says its fighters have foiled an attempt by Israeli ground forces to cross the border into the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli cabinet approves a military ground incursion in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes bomb a bridge linking Gaza City to the rest of the coastal slither.

Hamas fires eight rockets into Israel, seven into the Western Negev and one into the Eshkol region.

Israeli warplanes raid several targets in Gaza and kill four people.

A Hamas rocket hits a four-story building in Ashdod -- Israel's second largest port - and lightly wounds four people.

An Israeli air raid on a mosque in the Gaza Strip kills at least 16 Palestinians.

Israeli tanks begin shelling areas inside the strip, causing a large explosion in Gaza City as well as a series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel.

Israeli tanks roll into Gaza.

A Palestinian rocket destroys a house in the Israeli city of Netivot.

Israel bans a Red Cross medical team from entering Gaza to treat injured residents.

Hamas says that nine Israeli soldiers have been killed and 25 wounded.

The United Nations Security Council calls for an emergency meeting.

January 4: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calls for an immediate cessation of the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes bomb the coastal region, lighting up the sky hours before sunrise.

The United States blocks a UN Security Council bid to require an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli bombers hit the Hamas-run al-Aqsa radio station inside Gaza.

A Palestinian ambush allegedly kills five Israeli troops.

Hamas says its fighters have captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes with invading Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces surround the largest city in the Palestinian territories, Gaza City.

Clashes continue between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in four spots in the north, around Gaza City, Beit Hanun, Beit Lahiya and Jabaliya.

Gaza resistance fighters fire ten more rockets into Israeli cities, two targeted at western Negev and three hit Sderot city.

Israeli bombers target heavily populated areas inside the Gaza Strip, killing five Palestinian civilians and wounding 40 others.

Medics inside Gaza confirm that they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Palestinians wounded in the Israeli ground offensive.

Israel kills two senior Hamas officials, Hussam Hamdan and Muhammad Hilo, in an air strike on Khan Yunis.

Palestinian fighters fire at least 40 Qassam and Grad rockets into southern Israel.

Israeli President Shimon Peres rejects the possibility of a ceasefire.

Palestinians target an Israeli helicopter and allegedly destroy seven Israeli tanks inside the strip.

January 5: An Israeli tank shell kills five members of a family in an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City.

Israeli troops and tanks divide Gaza City and far northern areas from the rest of the coastal territory.

Hamas says it will attend an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire meeting in Cairo.

An army spokesman says the Israeli air force hits 30 targets in Gaza overnight.

Grad rockets target the Hatzor Air Base, near the Israeli town of Ashdod, the al-Aqsa TV channel reported.

Israeli media say Palestinian fighters fired at least four Qassam rockets into western Negev on Monday morning.

Israeli ground forces enter Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says.

Israel's attack on a house in the town of Beit Lahiyah in the northern Gaza Strip, kills three and injures at least 44 others.

Israeli forces shoot and kill a mother and her four children in the Chujaiya neighborhood in Gaza city.

An Israeli soldier is killed in fighting with Hamas fighters near Gaza City. Large explosions and heavy exchanges of fire rock eastern neighborhoods of the city.

An Israeli army spokesperson says that the Israeli forces have detained dozens of Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip.

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