Jan 15 (Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 1910 GMT: (* Denotes new or updated items) * GAZA - Hamas tells Egypt it would agree to a year-long renewable ceasefire in Gaza if Israel pulls out all its forces within 5-7 days and reopens border crossings immediately, Hamas and diplomatic sources said. * JERSUSALEM - Israel's prime minister, foreign minister and defence minister will make "decisions" about a ceasefire after getting a briefing about talks in Cairo, an official said. * GAZA - Israel kills senior Hamas leader Saeed Seyyam in an air strike after unleashing its heaviest shelling of Gaza neighbourhoods since the start of the 20-day-old operation. Seyyam was interior minister in Hamas's government and oversaw 13,000 Hamas police and security men. He was killed in an air strike in Jabalya refugee camp along with 10 other people including his brother and other senior operatives, Hamas said. * GAZA - Israeli shells strike a U.N. compound and a media building, an attempt to force Hamas to accept Israel's terms for a truce. A hospital was also hit the fighting. At least 15 Palestinians were killed in the city, medical officials said. * BEERSHEBA - Two Israelis seriously wounded from a rocket that landed near cars in central Beersheba. They were hit when they abandoned their car to seek shelter and lay on the ground, an ambulance service said. Four others were lightly wounded. * JERUSALEM - Addressing a main Israeli concern, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by telephone that Washington would sign an agreement on measures to stop Hamas from rearming after a ceasefire, Olmert's office said. * DEATH TOLL - At least 1,076 Palestinians have been killed in the air-and-ground offensive and more than 5,000 have been wounded, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. A Palestinian rights group said at least 670 of the dead were civilians. Thirteen Israelis have been killed -- 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire since Israel launched on Dec. 27 a military campaign it said was aimed at ending such salvoes. GAZA - Israeli tanks push deep into the district of Tal al-Hawwa, in the southwest corner of Gaza city, testing resistance close to the centre of Gaza, residents say. GAZA - Israeli air strike kills three people in a house near that of Mahmoud al-Zahar, one of Hamas's top figures in the Gaza Strip, medics say. No suggestion that Zahar was hurt. GAZA - Four militants killed in an air strike in the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers say. GAZA - Five people, all from the same family, killed in an Israeli air strike, according to Palestinian medics. A separate air strike kills one and injures four in Gaza city, medics say. GAZA - The Popular Resistance Committees militant group said two of its fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli troops east of the Gaza city. GAZA - Israeli navy shelling killed two medical workers in the northern Gaza Strip, medical workers said. GAZA - An Israeli tank shell kills a Palestinian civilian in the southern Gaza Strip, medical workers said. GAZA - Israeli air strikes targeting two motorcycles kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, medical workers said. GAZA - Israeli air strike kills two gunmen in the southern Gaza Strip, medical workers said. (Jerusalem Newsroom)
An Israeli soldier jumps off a tank in the northern Gaza Strip January 15, 2009. Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air strike on Thursday after unleashing its heaviest ...
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