Death tolls mounts as Israel expands Gaza Offensive.

4 soldiers in the Gaza Strip were killed on Tuesday by their shells on their tanks- it is the first "friendly fire" in the 11-old-days offensive. The Israeli soldiers were reported that they are heading south-ward into the Gaza Strip, to Khun Yunis. The United Nations reported that one of their schools were hit by the Israeli hit. The Hamas, who were the group that are defying the Israelies, fired more rockets into Israel on Tuesday. One of the rockets hit the town of Gareda, just 20 miles south away from Tel Aviv.  The target that was struck was the farthest north out of the hundred of missiles that had been fired from the Gaza Strip since the Israeli offensive began. Since the Israeli offensive went into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Israeli offensive have killed 130 of the Hama's men and only 5 men from the Israeli offensive died of the shell on their tank. The Israeli officials from Washington said that the amount of fired missiles have dropped from 80 on christmas day to 20 per day now. The president of France and the president of Syria met with the leaders of Israel and said that the fight must stop because it is "unbearable". The Israeli were still not ready to cease fire proposal. The offensive are not finished yet.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07mideast.html?pagewanted=2E_r=1Eref=world