Gaza - At least three people, a woman and two children, were killed Saturday when an Israeli artillery shell landed near a United Nations school in the northern Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses sai

Tel Aviv - The Israeli security cabinet was expected to vote Saturday night on a ceasefire proposal, as the military campaign entered its fourth week and airstrikes continued overnight across the Gaza Strip.

The warplanes hit about 50 targets during the night, including rocket launching sites, tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border as well as mosques used as points from where militants fired at Israel, a military spokesman said.

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Gaza City/Tel Aviv  - After three weeks of relentless Israeli air strikes and two weeks of heavy ground fighting, Gazans, exhausted, are hoping the end may be near, but also afraid to face the devastation around them once a truce is in place.

A huge rehabilitation effort will be needed to rebuild the buildings and infrastructure destroyed in what a military spokesman in Tel Aviv said Friday were well over 2,000 air strikes throughout the strip over the past three weeks.

Muharraq, Bahrain  - US and Arab leaders came under heavy criticism from hundreds of protesters during a rally in Muharraq, north of the Bahraini capital Manama on Friday, amidst continuing violence in the Gaza Strip.

The protesters stabbed pictures of US President George W Bush, Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak, and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas with knives, for their alleged role in supporting the offensive against the Gaza Strip.

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