Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of two youngsters killed yesterday by Israeli fire during clashes that broke out following demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip in Nilin, West Bank, on December 29, 2008 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Defence Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel was in an "all-out war against Hamas" as the Jewish state continued its massive bombardment of the Islamist movement's installations in Gaza. Israel unleashed on December 26 a massive bombardment on Hamas targets in Gaza, in a blitz that has killed more than 310 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,400 other, according to medics. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI
Palestinian children from the Balosha family, who were all killed in the same Israeli missile strike, are seen in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Israel's overwhelming air campaign against the Gaza Strip inched closer to the territory's Hamas rulers as the assault entered its third day Monday, as missiles struck a house next to the Hamas premier's home and destroyed symbols of the Islamic movement's power. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
A wounded Palestinian boy is treated at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli missile strike early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without quelching the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive. Gaza health officials reported 524 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded since Israel embarked upon its military campaign against Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers on Dec. 27. (AP Photo/AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A Palestinian doctor carries the body of a child killed by an Israeli tank shell, at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009. An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children in their home in eastern Gaza City on Monday, medical officials said. They said several other Palestinians were wounded in the incident in Gaza's Zeitoun neighbourhood. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA) 2:122 Caption writer SJS/SP/WY 2:130 Image type 3S 2:135 Language identifier en
The bodies of three of the children of Hamas leader of Nizar Rayan lie in a mortuary in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009, after they were killed in an Israeli air strike that also killed their father. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as Hamas ordered a "day of wrath" against Israel over the killing of senior commander Rayan. Rayan, a hardliner within the Islamist group, was killed along with several of his wives and children when a missile crashed into a five-storey house in Jabalia in the north of the territory, the medics said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Palestinian boys kneel over the bodies of Issa, left, Ahmed, center, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Wounded Palestinian children arrive for treatment at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli strike early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without quelching the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive. Gaza health officials reported 524 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded since Israel embarked upon its military campaign against Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers on Dec. 27.(AP Photo/AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP- DECEMBER 27: A wounded child awaits medical attention at the Shifa hospital on December 27, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. Israel's air force fired about 30 missiles at targets along the Gaza Strip on Saturday, destroying several Hamas police compounds, killing more than 200 people and wounding hundreds. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Palestinians inspect a crater caused by an Israeli air strike at a police station in Gaza City on December 29, 2008. The massive Israeli bombardment of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip has so far killed 310 Palestinians, the head of Gaza emergency services told AFP today. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
A dead Palestinian infant is brought to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit a house early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without quelching the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive. Gaza health officials reported 524 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded since Israel embarked upon its military campaign against Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers on Dec. 27.(AP Photo/AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)
Palestinian rescue workers carry a wounded prisoner past a fire, as another lays under the rubble in the central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. More than 270 Palestinians, most of them militants, have been killed and more than 600 people wounded since Israel's campaign to quash rocket barrages from Gaza began midday Saturday. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - DECEMBER 28: A wounded Palestinian girl is carried into the Al-Shifa hospital on December 28, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. On the second day of cross-border conflict, Israel's air force continued to launch attacks along the Gaza Strip, destroying many buildings belonging to Hamas, including holy mosques, civilian homes and vehicles, work shops, police compounds and a prison, increasing the number of Palestians killed to over 270. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Una explosión después de un bombardeo israelí en Beit Lahiya, en el norte de la Franja de Gaza, el sábado 3 de enero de 2009. (Foto AP/Adel Hana)
A Palestinian woman sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Israel rejected any truce with Hamas Islamists on Tuesday and said it was ready for "long weeks of action" on a fourth day of the fiercest air offensive in the Gaza Strip in decades. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA) PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL/
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Palestinian mourners hold up the body of one of Hamas leader Nizar Rayan’s slain children during a funeral procession in Jabalia on the way to the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009, after he was killed in an Israeli air strike that also killed his father and other members of his family. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamas's "day of wrath" against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS
Palestinian mourners carry the body of one of Hamas leader Nizar Rayan’s slain children during a funeral procession in Jabalia on the way to the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009, after he was killed in an Israeli air strike that also killed his father and other members of his family. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamas's "day of wrath" against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS
Palestinians pray over the bodies of Hamas leader Nizar Rayan and members of his family killed in an Israeli air strike during a funeral procession in Jabalia before burial in Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamas's "day of wrath" against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike in the southern town of Rafah on December 27, 2008. At least 120 people were killed across the Gaza Strip as a result of massive Israeli air strikes today, 70 inside Gaza City and the rest elsewhere across the enclave, Hamas radio reported. AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB TELETIPOS_CORREO:WAR,WAR,%%%,%%%
A relative carries the body of 4-year-old girl Dena Balosha during her funeral in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Palestinian medics said five young sisters, one of them Balosha, died in an air strike in Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza and three other young children were killed when a bomb struck a house aimed at the nearby abandoned home of a senior Hamas militant in Rafah. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
Mahmoud Tark, an injured nine-year-old Palestinian boy, is transported by Red Crescent officials on an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to a hospital in Al-Arish December 30, 2008. Palestinians wounded in the Israeli attack on Gaza trickled into Egypt on Monday after a day and a half of confusion and disagreement between the Islamist movement Hamas and the Egyptian government. REUTERS/Amr Dalsh (EGYPT)
A Palestinian father of five young girls, who were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourns as he holds his wounded son, during their funeral in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Palestinian medics said five young sisters died in an air strike in Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza and three other young children were killed when a bomb struck a house aimed at the nearby abandoned home of a senior Hamas militant in Rafah. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
A Palestinian man looks out towards destroyed Hamas government buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Early Tuesday, Israeli aircraft dropped at least 16 bombs on five Hamas government buildings in a Gaza City complex, destroying them, setting fires and sending rubble flying for hundreds of yards, witnesses said. Rescue workers said 40 people were injured. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Wounded Palestinians are treated on the floor of Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2008, following an Israeli air strike on the nearby Jabalia refugee camp. Israeli tanks massed at the Gaza border today as warplanes continued pounding Hamas targets in the densely populated enclave where raids have killed more than 300 people in two days. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
JABALIA, GAZA STRIP - DECEMBER 29: Samera Baalusha (34) (R) sits with her daughter Eman (15) and surviving son Mohamad (15 months) while waiting to see the body of her daughter Jawaher Baalusha (aged 4) during the funeral held for her and her four sisters who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, on December 29, 2008 in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip. Jawher Baalusha and four of her sisters were killed during an Israeli air raid while they were sleeping together in their bedroom. Medics stated that the raid had targeted a mosque near their home in Jabalia. Israel continued its air campaign against the Gaza Strip for the third day today, as missiles struck targets and wreaked unprecedented destruction in Gaza, reducing buildings to rubble. The death toll of over 300 victims and about 1,400 wounded continues to rise. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of the children of Hamas leader Nizar Rayan, who were killed along with their father in an Israeli air strike, during a funeral procession in Jabalia on the way to the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamas's "day of wrath" against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. AFP PHOTO/MAMUD HAMS
