As violence raged for a sixth day, an Israeli missile strike killed a senior Islamic Jihad militant in a Gaza City media tower, the second time in as many days it has been targeted.
DEATH TOLL - Reuters news agency reports 3 Israeli deaths since Wednesday, while Palestinian deaths have now reach more than 100.
Shuruq tower in central Gaza City is a media hub, which housed Arab and international media, but an Israeli spokesperson told Al Jazeera that it housed "Hamas communications equipment".
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The building reportedly also housed Britain's Sky News, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya and the official Hamas broadcaster, Al Aqsa TV.
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In a tense interview, Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev told Al Jazeera that Israel is not targeting journalists in Gaza.
The Islamic Jihad group identified the one reported victim as Ramez Harb and said he was a senior commander in its armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades.
A further eight journalists were injured in the strike, taking the overall death toll past 100.
Israeli has struck more than 1,350 targets in Gaza since attacks began, Israel says it launched the operation to deter Palestinian fighters from launching rockets into its territory.
Since then, 640 rockets have hit Israel while more than 300 others have been intercepted by Israel's anti-missile system, the Iron Dome, according to the Israeli army.
Three Israeli civilians died on Thursday in a rocket strike.
With UN chief Ban Ki Moon in Cario to push for a ceasefire, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said his movement was committed to efforts to secure a truce, but insisted that Israel must lift its six-year blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in talks with top ministers on how to proceed with the ongoing Gaza operation.
Ministers in Netanyahu's inner circle -- the Forum of Nine -- are reportedly debating whether to agree to a ceasefire or expand the air and naval campaign into a ground operation.
BOB CARR: ISRAEL SHOULD CONSIDER CIVILIANS
Australian Foregin Minister Bob Carr urged caution while defending US President Barack Obama's visit to the ASEAN summit, despite the Israel-Hamas conflict.
"Well there will always be trouble in the Middle East and if an American president had to respond to that by going nowhere, but sitting in the White House Situation Room, there'd be nothing else achieved in American foreign policy," he told ABC Radio.
"I'm urging Israel to think very carefully about the, first of all, the proportionate response, the proportionality of its response; and second to think about the prospect of a heavy burden being borne by civilians," he said.
This map is based on major strikes reported by verified sources, and does not represent every impact recorded in Israel or the Gaza Strip during November 2012.
