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Added on the 01/11/2013 04:35:02 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Several thousand Gazans gathered for a third consecutive Friday of mass protests along the border with Israel after violence in which Israeli forces have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others. 1ST IMAGES
Images show Israeli military vehicles moving along the border with the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas. In war-battered Gaza, there has been mounting concern over Israeli plans to launch an assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah, where 1.5 million people have sought refuge, many in makeshift encampments. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives in El-Arish airport in Egypt, to visit the border with Gaza after Israel vowed to send its troops to fight Hamas in the nearby city of Rafah, even without United States support. IMAGES
Smoke billows following an Israeli strike on the town of Rafah on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. Pressure for a ceasefire has mounted as Israeli forces push towards Rafah, where more than half the besieged territory's population has taken shelter. IMAGES
Smoke rises in the southern Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel-Gaza border, following Israeli strikes. Artillery fire pounded southern Gaza as Israel said it has begun flooding Hamas tunnels and mediators sought a halt to the nearly four-month war. IMAGES
The United States deplores the shelling on a UN shelter in Gaza that killed nine people, and calls again for civilians to be protected in the bloody war with Israel, a State Department spokesman says. "We deplore today's attack on the UN's Khan Yunis training center," spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
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