Israeli solders shoot teargas grenades towards Palestinians protesters blocking the main road leading from the West Bank town of Ramallah to Jerusalem, next to the checkpoint of Kalandia , 28 December 2008. Israel's cabinet approved on 28 December plans to call up more than 6,000 reserve soldiers, raising the possibility that the two-day old offensive against the radical Hamas movement in in the Gaza Strip could include a ground operation as well as air strikes. The Israel Air Force, however, kept up its attacks on the enclave, hitting, among other targets, Gaza City's main security compound which houses a central prison and several security force headquarters. Four people were killed in the attack, bringing to 285 the number of people, more than half of them militants, killed in the Israeli operation which began on 27 December in response to massive rocket barrages on southern Israel since a six-month truce with the militant organizations ended. Over 900 people have been wounded
An Israeli soldier fires tear gas during clashes with Palestinian protesters demonstrating against the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza at the market of the West Bank city of Hebron, 29 December 2008. The Israel Air Force bombed and rocketed dozens more targets throughout Gaza overnight and on 29 December, on the third day of a massive air offensive against Hamas, aimed at curbing rocket and mortar attacks from the enclave. At least 316 Palestinians, many of them of Hamas, have been killed since the massive air campaign, codenamed "Operation Cast Lead," started 27 December, just over a week after a fragile, six-month truce between Israel and Hamas formally ended
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