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Israel, Hamas press on with Gaza war
Fri Jan 9, 2009 7:24pm EST
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel pressed on with a punishing Gaza offensive and Hamas sent more rocket salvoes into southern Israeli towns in a two-week-old war that continued to defy international efforts to stop it.
The Israeli military said it carried out more than 70 air strikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday against militants, rocket launching sites and weapons caches, and that the Islamist group fired at least 30 rockets across the border.
Medical officials in the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian death toll had risen to 784. Hamas officials said more than a third were children. Ten Israeli soldiers have been killed, as well as three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dismissed as "unworkable" a binding U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an "immediate and durable" ceasefire.
Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip said they were weighing the resolution but objected they had not been consulted. The group said it had sent three of its leaders from Gaza to Cairo to discuss a separate Egyptian ceasefire proposal.
Diplomats said Israel and Egypt were far apart on the plan.
In a telephone call to Olmert, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "expressed disappointment that the violence is continuing on the ground in disregard" of the Security Council resolution, U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said.
Senior U.N. officials have no direct contacts with Hamas but Montas said Ban would convey the same message to the group indirectly.
Israel's security cabinet debated for the second time in three days whether to send in reservists for a push into the Gaza Strip's towns and cities. There was no word on the outcome.
"I can't go into operational details. The military pressure on Hamas will continue," said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Olmert.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which distributes much of the aid in Gaza, kept some of its operations suspended on Friday after the death of one of its drivers in Israel's offensive.
U.N. aid workers planned to resume their movements in Gaza's rubble-strewn streets as soon as possible after receiving Israeli assurances that they were not being targeted, a U.N. spokeswoman said in New York.
WHITE HOUSE BLAMES HAMAS
The United States, which abstained in the U.N. vote, offered further public support for Israel's military goals.
"This situation will not improve until Hamas stops lobbing rockets into Israel," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. Continued...
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