An Israeli soldier walks to an Israeli tank near the Jewish settlement of nisanit in the gaza strip the Israeli army expanded wednesday its two-week-old offensive in northern the Gaza Strip with tanks moving deeper in to the town of beit Lahiya to try to stop palestinian rocket fire at Israeli border town. Three militants were killed and seven palestinians were wounded in the fighting, including for children between the ages of 5 and 16, hospital officials said on the militants was killed by a missile strike, and two by a tank shell, whnesses said.

13 oct. 2004