Israeli troops advanced into the Gaza Strip. The army takes the tunnel under attack, pass through the Hamas fighters to Israel. At least eleven Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed.

To the east of the Gaza Strip loud attacks were going to have orange lightning lit up the sky on the night of Friday. Israeli gunboats fired tracer bullets. Artillery shells were heard helicopters fired across the border, as Palestinians reported.

In the Gaza Strip has been running since Thursday evening, the ground offensive by the Israeli army. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ground offensive in the evening. The army was mobilized for the use of another 18,000 reservists – this means Israel nearly 70,000 soldiers available.

It will operate in the north, south and east of the coastal strip, said military spokesman Arye Shalicar at night. The aim of using it is to destroy the infrastructure of the radical

Islamic Hamas. This concerns in particular the tunnel, always go by the Hamas fighters to Israel.
Eleven days ago, Israel had an air offensive against the Gaza Strip launched to prevent the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants. For days, the two sides shoot each other.

Israel Army Ground Operation Gaza:Rising numbers of victims

Now In the ground offensive in the night, an Israeli soldier was killed the first time, as the army reported. The soldier was killed in fighting in the northern part of the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean killed. Two other soldiers were injured in fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported.

According to Palestinian rescue workers at least eleven Palestinians died in the early hours of Friday by tank fire and other hostilities. Among the victims is supposed to be a five-month-old baby. The number of victims then continually rise: Since the beginning of the offensive on the Palestinian side, there were more than 250 victims, the Israelis came alongside the soldiers, a civilian killed.

Hamas called the ground offensive as “dangerous step” that Israel “pay dearly” will. The Palestinian Resistance Committees announced that they would turn Gaza into a graveyard for Israeli soldiers.

Israel Army Ground Operation Gaza:Washington calls for rapid deployment in the Gaza Strip

The U.S. pushed Israel to the shortest possible deployment of ground troops. Israel has a right to defend itself and this would support the United States also, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a telephone call. The Minister had also explained that the deployment of soldiers in the Gaza Strip to destroy tunnels under US-view should be “precise operation”, said the U.S. State Department. Kerry had also called for steps to de-escalate the conflict in the conversation.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to protect civilians in the Palestinian territories. “I regret that in spite of my repeated warnings – and that of many regional and world powers – an already dangerous conflict has now escalated even further,” Ban said. Israel must now “far do more to avoid civilian casualties.” Hamas, he called for an end to the attacks on Israel. For the conflict there was “no military solution”.

On Thursday it had initially given signals of relaxation, both sides stuck to a five-hour humanitarian truce. UN organizations had proposed this, so that people in the Gaza Strip could be supplied with relief supplies. After the lapse of five hours, Hamas fired rockets but again, the Israeli army said more than 100 missiles….

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