Jan 10 (Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 2030 GMT: (* Denotes new or updated items) * DAMASCUS - Hamas's leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, said his group would not consider a Gaza ceasefire until Israel ended its 15-day-old military offensive and opened the coastal strip's border crossings. * GAZA - Israel said an air strike near the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip killed Amir Mansi, a senior Hamas commander. Palestinian medical workers said one adult and two children were killed but that Mansi's condition was unclear. * GAZA - A series of Israeli air strikes in Jabalya killed an Islamic Jihad militant and two civilians, Palestinian medical workers said. * GAZA - An Israeli tank shell killed five members of a Palestinian family in Beit Hanoun, Palestinian medical workers said. * GAZA - Eight Palestinians were killed by an Israeli tank shell in Jabalya refugee camp, Palestinian medical workers said. The Israeli military denied carrying out attacks in the area. * SOUTHERN ISRAEL - Gaza militants fired about a dozen cross-border rockets, some landing deep in Israel. Several struck the Israeli town of Ashkelon, injuring two Israelis, the military said. * GAZA/ISRAEL - The death toll in Gaza in the two-week Israeli offensive has reached 843, more than a third of them children, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Thirteen Israelis have been killed, 10 soldiers, and three civilians killed by Hamas rocket fire. GAZA - An Israeli air strike on a house in northern Gaza killed a woman and wounded two people, Palestinian medics said.SOUTHERN GAZA - Israel carried out a series of air strikes along the southern Gaza border with Egypt, where tunnels have been used to smuggle arms and other goods into Gaza. Residents said the air strikes damaged an electricity transformer feeding power to Gaza.GAZA - A missile landed inside a hospital compound in the centre of the Gaza Strip, wounding one person, doctors said.GAZA - A Palestinian gunman was killed in central Gaza in clashes with Israeli troops, doctors said.GAZA - A gunman from the Islamic Jihad militant group was killed in the Beach Camp refugee settlement in northern Gaza Strip, medical workers said. (Jerusalem Newsroom)
Leftwing Israeli activists take part in a protest in Tel Aviv against Israel's offensive in Gaza January 10, 2009. The signs read, "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies" (L) and ...
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