Hamas fired rockets at southern Israel today, hitting a house and a Jewish seminary just hours after five Hamas policemen were killed in Israeli air strikes.

Israel launched air strikes and a ground raid on Gaza today exchanging fire with Palestinian gunmen, killing two militants and a 12-year old boy.

Eleven Palestinians, including five civilians, died late yesterday and early today in escalating Israeli-Palestinian fighting that renewed threats of an Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Rival Palestinian Islamic groups Hamas and Fatah called on their members to fight back after 11 militants were killed in a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip

Israeli aircraft struck four times in Gaza early today, the army said, killing one Hamas militant.

Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian militant in a clash along the Gaza-Israel border, the Israeli army and a Palestinian militant group said.

Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a group of Palestinian gunmen, killing six and wounding 15 this morning.

The Hamas-led Palestinian government has agreed to withdraw its private militia from public areas of Gaza in an agreement with the rival Fatah movement aimed at halting weeks of bloody infighting.

Israeli aircraft fired at two Palestinians laying a bomb near the Gaza-Israel border fence today, the army said.

Mahmoud Abbas is under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the January 25 parliament election amid fears about a possible Hamas victory, an aide to the Palestinian leader said today.

Palestinian militants found a way around the heavy fortifications at the Israeli-run crossing point between Egypt and Gaza – tunnelling under the base and blowing it up with more than a ton of explosives, killing five soldiers.