Big guns : Israeli mobile artillery fires shells towards the Gaza Stripfrom the Israel-Gaza border. (AFP/Jack Guez)
From Yahoo News/AFP:
GAZA CITY (AFP) – Tanks and warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after Israel defied a truce order from the UN Security Council as the death toll from the two-week-old conflict against Hamas passed 800.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would not bow to "outside influence" as its aircraft carried out scores of bombings and the army's tanks shelled several locations despite an announced three-hour "humanitarian" lull.
Hamas meanwhile said it would not accept any ceasefire with Israel that did not see the lifting of a crippling blockade of the impoverished territory enacted when the Islamist movement seized power in Gaza in June 2007.
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