Smokes rise following an Israeli airstrike on an area known to have smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, on January 3, 2009. The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday evening began its ground incursion into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, vowing to destroy "terror infrastructure" of Hamas. And more than 450 Palestinians has been killed and some 2,300 wounded during Israeli ongoing intensive airstrikes since December 27, 2008. [Xinhua]

A Palestinian woman reacts on the rubble of her destroyed house after it was hit in an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on January 3, 2009. The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday evening began its ground incursion into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, vowing to destroy "terror infrastructure" of Hamas. And more than 450 Palestinians has been killed and some 2,300 wounded during Israeli ongoing intensive airstrikes since December 27, 2008. [Xinhua]