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BBC NEWS Middle East Israel strikes new Gaza targets: "Israel strikes new Gaza targets

Israel targeted militants in Rafah in the latest air strikes
Israeli aircraft have launched a fresh wave of air strikes on Gaza, intensifying pressure on Palestinian militants to free a captured soldier.
The Palestinian interior ministry was hit, while a militant was reported killed in an air strike - the first fatality since the offensive began.
Meanwhile the UN has warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On Thursday Israel said it was postponing sending troops into northern Gaza to give diplomacy a chance.
In an interview with the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said the Palestinian militant group Hamas had agreed to the conditional release of Cpl Gilad Shalit, who was captured on Sunday.
'Up to now, the Israeli side does not accept,' Mr Mubarak is quoted as saying, without giving details of the Palestinian conditions.

Gaza Strip in detail


But there has been no public Israeli response. The Israeli government has demanded Cpl Shalit's unconditional release, and our Jerusalem correspondent Nick Thorpe says the Israeli government seems unlikely to greet Mr Mubarak's comments with great enthusiasm.
Egyptian officials have been trying to negotiate Cpl Shalit's release since the beginning of the crisis.
'All-out war'
In the latest round of air strikes, Israeli warplanes fired missiles into the unoccupied Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza City shortly after midnight on Friday, setting the building ablaze.
CAPTURED ISRAELI SOLDIER

Cpl Gilad Shalit, 19
First Israeli soldier captured by Palestinians since 1994


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