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The heaviest fighting of Israel's war on Gaza raged in Gaza City early on Tuesday as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rebuffed appeals to stop the death toll from mounting further.
With Israeli helicopters firing heavy machine guns from above, tanks shelled the dense Shejaiya district of eastern Gaza City, residents said.
Flares lit the night sky over a city without electricity as blasts shook the area.
Amid the chaos, the Israeli army said three of its soldiers died and 24 were wounded when their position was accidentally hit by tank fire in northern Gaza.
Hamas said it fired missiles at seven tanks in Shejaiya and killed 10 Israeli soldiers.
At least 13 children were among 60 bodies taken to Gaza hospitals on Monday, medics said. Almost 100 children have been killed since the Israeli air raids began on December 27, according to emergency services.
More than 2,700 people have been wounded, and the International Red Cross said people were dying because ambulances could not reach them.
Israeli warplanes flew more than 40 air strikes on Monday. Naval vessels also bombarded targets to support the ground offensive launched on Saturday night, as shelling hit Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing three people.
In the central town of Deir al-Balah, six fighters died when the house they were in was hit by tank fire, witnesses said.
A couple and their five children were killed by a navy shell, medics said. Three children were killed by a shell in the Gaza City suburbs and two were killed in Shati, they said.
Israel says dozens of Hamas fighters and four Israeli soldiers have been killed since Saturday. Another 79 soldiers have been wounded.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak pledged the war would continue.
Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since seizing the densely populated coastal enclave in June 2007, remained defiant.
"Victory is coming," its senior leader in Gaza, Mahmud Zahar, said in a television broadcast.
"They (Israel) have legitimized the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine. They have legitimized the destruction of their synagogues and their schools by hitting our mosques and our schools."
Israel faces intense international pressure to ease the suffering of the 1.5 million Gaza population, which has no power or water supplies and finding food is a daily struggle.
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Israeli mobile artillery redeploys at sunset near the border with the Gaza Strip.
AFP
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