Gaza City - An Israeli airstrike on a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip killed 11 people late Saturday afternoon, and wounded 50 others, 24 of them seriously, Palestinian sources reported.

An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment on the report, which comes on the eighth day of an Israeli offensive, mainly conducted through aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip.

A second airstrike on Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip, killed four people, Palestinians said, bringing the death toll from Israeli operations Saturday to 19 Palestinians.

London, Jan 3 : In a bid to put an end to Israel''s bombing of the Gaza Strip, Scottish singer Annie Lennox and English stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle have joined high-profile campaigners in voicing their concerns.

During a news conference in London, Lennox said that TV footage of the attacks, which have taken the lives of more than 400 innocent people, left her shaken.

"A few days after Christmas I came downstairs, put the television on and saw smoke pyres emanating from buildings and it shook me to the core," the BBC quoted her as saying.

"I was thinking, as a mother and as a human being, how was this going to be a solution to peace?

Cairo - The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas' loss has been "very small" during the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the group's spiritual leader, Khaled Mishaal, said on Friday.
"Hamas loss is small, very small," Mishaal, the group's politburo chief, said in a statement broadcast live on al-Jazeera TV.
In his second TV appearance since the attack started seven days ago, the top leader of the hard-line Palestinian faction, who lives in exile, said that Israel failed to hit the group's military targets.
Over the past week, more than 700 targets in Gaza have been hit, an army spokeswoman said, while hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas hit Israel.

Demonstrations were held around the world in reaction to the ongoing Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip which in seven days has left at least 420 Palestinians dead and thousands injured.

In the world's most populous Muslim country Indonesia, more than 10,000 people rallied outside the US embassy in Jakarta on Friday to protest the Gaza Strip attacks and condemn the United States for supporting the Israel.

It was the biggest protest in support of the Palestinians in Indonesia since the airstrikes were launched on Saturday in what Israel says is a defensive move to halt rocket attacks on Israeli territory by Palestinian militants.

Tel Aviv  - International journalists demanded unfettered access to Gaza Friday and protested Israeli government attempts to limit the entry of reporters into the strip.

The Foreign Press Association (FPA), the body representing foreign correspondents working in Israel and the Palestinian autonomous areas, said it was "dismayed" the Israeli government allowed no journalists to enter Gaza on Friday, despite an Israeli High Court decision that it should allow limited access.

The Jerusalem court ruled Friday morning the government should allow into Gaza small groups of eight to 12 journalists at a time, who must share their information with other reporters - a practice called "pool sharing" in journalism.

Gaza/Tel Aviv - Hamas declared Friday a "day of rage" to mark one week of incessant Israeli air raids in Gaza, and vowed to avenge the killing of a top leader, Nizar Rayan, along with nearly his entire family in one airstrike in northern Gaza the previous afternoon.

Israel continued to focus on, and keep up, its air raids on the seventh day of its offensive, but ground troops were waiting along the Gaza border for orders to enter.

At least eight Palestinians - three of them children - were killed as a military spokesman said Israel pounded 20 more targets overnight and some 35 later throughout the day.