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GAZA CITY: Israel launched ground offensive in Gaza on Saturday after carrying out air strikes in the city which killed hundreds of people and injured thousands others.Israeli troops entered in Gaza from 3 sides, Arab TV reported.Israel aims to "take over" areas in Gaza from where militants have fired rockets into the Jewish state, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said after ground troops entered the enclave."The Israel Defence Forces (army) is planning to take over rocket launching areas from where rockets have been fired over the past weeks and months," it said in a statement.The goal of the operation include "dealing a hard blow to the Hamas terror infrastructure and changing the security reality in the south over a long period of time," it said.Israeli tanks opened fire on Hamas positions after entering the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Hamas forces replied with mortar fire, witnesses told a foreign news agency.

Awaz Apni GAZA CITY: As instructed by its political leadership, the Israeli army continued its military offensive against the Gaza Strip and shelled further targets raising the number of deaths among the residents to 230, and at least 700 residents were wounded, dozens seriously. The Qatar-based news Agency said that the simultaneous and ongoing Israeli strikes also targeted a mosque, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, and dozens of civilian homes and facilities. At least 40 security centers were simultaneously hit; some centers were repeatedly hit which increased the number of casualties as the residents and medics rushed to evacuate the wounded and the casualties before the Israeli force struck the same targets againAL Shifa hospital in Gaza, the main hospital in central Gaza, is overloaded with killed and wounded residents. Dr. Hasan Khalaf, head of the hospital, said that the hospital had to use some ordinary rooms as primitive intensive care units due to the large number of i...

Awaz Apni GAZA CITY: Israeli air force fired about 30 missiles at targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, destroying several Hamas police compounds and killing more than 195 people, Arab media reported.The Israeli military confirmed they had conducted strikes, saying they targeted "terrorist infrastructure."Television footage showed dead bodies scattered on a road and wounded and dead being carried away by distraught rescuers. There was widespread damage to buildings.More than 155 people were killed and 200 were wounded in the attacks, Al Jazeera TV said, citing the head of the Gaza ambulance service.Hamas police spokesman Islam Shahwan said a police compound in Gaza City had been hosting a graduation ceremony for new personnel when it was attacked. Police chief Tawfiq Jabber was among the dead, the radio said."I'm afraid we have at least 40 dead," Shahwan said.Uniformed bodies lay in a pile and the wounded writhed in pain, television pictures showed. Rescuers c...

CNews PARIS: A foreign news agency Monday reported that President Pervez Musharraf has held a meeting with Israel's defense minister in a Paris hotel last week. Presidential spokesman however, has denied meeting between President Musharraf and Israeli defence minister. In Islamabad, Foreign Ministry spokesman said Musharraf had a ``chance'' meeting with Israeli minister in Paris hotel. A foreign news agency citing Israeli sources reported President Musharraf and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met by chance at the a Paris hotel, where they both were staying. They then held a scheduled one-hour meeting the following day, the officials said. Israeli defence minister and President Musharraf discussed the Iran nuclear issue, the report said. However, Musharraf and former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had shook hands on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September 2005. In Islamabad, Foreign Ministry spokesman said Musharraf had a chance meeting with Barak in ...