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Israel launches an operation in Gaza and announces massive bombing

The Israeli army has deployed tanks and artillery along the border with Gaza.

Israel on Sunday sent a command into the Gaza Strip and warned the inhabitants of the north of the territory controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which will perform at noon mass bombing.

A command of the Israeli Navy landed at dawn on the beach in Gaza to attack a rocket launcher.

"The mission has been completed successfully," said a military spokesman, who states that four soldiers were slightly wounded in shootings. (See also: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: living under a rain of rockets).

The military wing of Hamas, the Qassam brigades Ezedin confirmed that "there were intense firefights" with "Zionist soldiers marina" trying to penetrate the northwestern enclave. This is the first ground incursion by the Israeli army since Tuesday launched an air offensive to destroy the ability of Hamas shooting.

"Instant" Evacuation

The Israeli army has warned, through leaflets, the inhabitants of the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate your home "immediately" before noon (local time) in anticipation of massive bombings in the sector.

"We intend to attack the terrorist infrastructure. Operation will be brief.'s not following the instructions put their lives and those of their families at risk," he said. Israeli leaders did not fail in the last days of threatening a major ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which bombed by air and sea.

The Israeli army has mobilized 40,000 reservists and deployed tanks and artillery along the border with the Gaza Strip, an overcrowded territory of 360 km2, with a poverty rate of 39% (according to the IMF in 2011). On Saturday night, made ​​some twenty aviation attacks, which already has 1,329 since the beginning of the operation, a military spokesman said.

On Sunday morning, a Palestinian teenager of 14 years and a 44 killed in these attacks, a spokesman for Palestinian relief services, Ashraf al Qudra.

Saturday was the bloodiest day of the week, with a balance of 56 dead, including two nephews of the Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, but also women, including two disabled, in a bombing at the shelter where they were, and young children? In total, Israeli attacks left 165 dead and over 1,000 injured since Tuesday, medical sources say.

According to an assessment of the UN, 70% of victims are civilians and 21% lower. Israel recorded in the last 24 hours 53 rockets fired from Gaza against their territory, so they are already 800 since Tuesday. Of these, 127 were intercepted by the missile defense system. In total they have caused ten injuries but no deaths.

UN calls for ceasefire

The spiral of violence was unleashed after the kidnapping and murder in June of three Israeli students in the West Bank, which Israel attributed to Hamas. They were followed by the killing of a Palestinian youth burnt alive in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists.

On the diplomatic front, the British, American, French and German foreign ministers on Sunday addressed a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. They will in Vienna, where they meet during the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program.

The Security Council of the UN on Saturday again called on Israel and Hamas to cease hostilities and to respect international law, including "the protection of civilians."

On Monday scheduled a meeting of the Arab League on the issue. But on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insisted his country will not yield "to any international pressure," despite U.S. President Barack Obama proposed to mediate the conflict.