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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Israel continues pounding Gaza targets on day 7 of blitz AFP - 1 hour 39 minutes ago GAZA CITY, Jan 2, 2009 (AFP) - - Israel continued to bomb Gaza early on Friday after killing a top Hamas commander in the biggest blow yet to the Islamist's leadership, as the death toll in the seven-day blitz reached at least 420. With tanks and troops massed for a threatened ground offensive and no ceasefire in sight, the army was allowing foreigners living in Gaza to leave on Friday. Israeli planes and naval guns staged more than 50 attacks on Thursday and Hamas sent more rockets deep into Israel. An army spokeswoman said bombing overnight was aimed at 15 targets, including rocket launchers and weapons storage facilities. Witnesses in Gaza told AFP several people had been wounded, but no deaths were reported. On Thursday, Israeli jets fired missiles on the home of Nizar Rayan in the Jabaliya refugee camp, killing him, his four wives, 10 of his children and two neighbours, witnesses and medical sources said. Considered to be among the most hawkish of Hamas leaders, Rayan was the most senior figure to be killed by Israel since Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004. Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said Israel would regret its attacks. While they "are intended to break our will, they won't," he said on television. "This cowardly enemy must realise that he will regret these crimes against our people." In addition to the 420 dead, "Operation Cast Lead" has also left 2,180 people wounded, according to Palestinian emergency services. Rocket fire from Gaza has killed four people and wounded dozens in Israel. Thursday's Israeli strikes also hit the parliament and justice ministry, rocket launching sites, tunnels for smuggling weapons or supplies into the territory and weapons storage facilities, a military spokeswoman said. And the army said it bombed the mosque in Jabaliya where Rayan was a preacher, calling it a "terror-hub" and a storage site for rockets and other weapons. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and the United Nations says about 25 percent of the dead are civilians. Food, fuel and medical supplies are all running short, aid agencies say. Israel began the offensive on Saturday in response to rocket fire by Hamas and its allies but has failed to halt those attacks, none of which caused any casualties on Thursday. One projectile slammed into an apartment block in Ashdod more than 30 kilometres (20 miles) from Gaza, the army said. And two rockets hit near the desert city of Beersheva, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border -- the deepest yet they have reached into Israel. Speaking in Beersheva, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel is "not interested in conducting a long war" but insisted "we will deal with Hamas and terror with an iron fist." Hamas has fired more than 360 rockets since Saturday, Israel says. On the diplomatic front, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni held talks in Paris on Thursday with President Nicolas Sarkozy and other French leaders. The previous day, Israel had rejected a French proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire to help humanitarian efforts. Livni repeated that rejection, saying Israel would decide in due course when to halt its offensive. "The question of whether it's enough or not will be the result of our assessment on a daily basis," she said. Peace moves were also stalled at the UN Security Council even though UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the conflict had become "a dramatic crisis." The civilian population in Gaza and stability throughout the Middle East "are trapped between the irresponsibility displayed in the indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas militants and the disproportionality of the continuing Israeli military operation," Ban said. Libya presented the Security Council with a draft resolution drawn up by the Arab League calling for an immediate ceasefire, but the United States and Britain said it appeared biased because it did not mention the Hamas attacks. Meanwhile, an Israeli defence ministry spokeswoman said "about 400 people, dual nationals" living in Gaza would be leaving on Friday after their countries asked that they be allowed to do so. The largest number were from Russia, with others coming from the United States, Norway, Turkey, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, Peter Lerner said, adding that they would leave through the Erez crossing. Meanwhile, Israeli police were on alert in east Jerusalem. Hamas called for a "day of wrath" on Friday there and in the West Bank, with "massive marches" after weekly Muslim prayers, starting off from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and from "all the mosques in the West Bank." The army also locked down the West Bank from midnight (2200 GMT Thursday) for 48 hours, with movement in and out of the territory prohibited except for emergencies and special cases. 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