Israel’s parliament today opens what is expected to be a stormy winter session with a warning from the speaker that passions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s planned Gaza pullout next year could boil over into fistfights, and the government itself could fall.

An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of gunmen in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza after nightfall last night, killing one and wounding seven, in the second air strike of the day as a large-scale military operation continued.

An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a home near a Hamas stronghold in the Jebaliya refugee camp today, killing one civilian and wounding eight other Palestinians, hospital officials said.

An Israeli aircraft fired a missile today at a Palestinian house in a Hamas stronghold in Gaza’s Jebaliya refugee camp, killing at least one person, witnesses and rescue workers said.