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Last updated: January 6, 2009 12:51 pm
After a week of intense bombardments from land, sea and air, Israeli ground troops staged a massive ground offensive against Hamas-controlled Gaza. The incursion by Israeli forces brought the Palestinian death toll since the start of the conflict to over 500.
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