Gaza - unities of infantry and armored conveyers Israelis slowly progress towards Gaza-city to leave in particular its southern periphery. Tens of Palestinian families escaped, brought back witnesses.

Saturday, Israeli aviation had released thousands of leaflets informing the population of next “an intensification of the operations against the tunnels, the depositions of weapons and the terrorists in all the Gaza Strip”.

Inhabitants announced the input of armored conveyers at dawn in the district of sheik , with the periphery of the town of Gaza, as well as shootings of tanks on the district of Al-Hawa, in the center of the city, and that of . The movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad indicated that several Palestinians had been wounded in combat with sheik .

The combatants place bombs in edge of route to try to prevent the projection of the tanks, according to them.

At least four Palestinians were killed and out of tens wounded at the time of the Israeli attacks during the night in the territory, according to medical sources. The Israeli army announced that aviation had tackled sixty objectives during the night whereas the terrestrial forces continue their operations.

Three rockets were drawn on Israel by Palestinians during the night and early the morning, causing material damage with , the metropolis of the south, without making victims, according to the army. Following the relative fall of rocket fires of these last days, the schools partially reopened in the south of Israel.