Jerusalem - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, would only resume its full operations in the Gaza Strip after it received safety assurances from the Israeli military, an official said Friday.

"We need an effective mechanism of coordination and that must include every soldier in the Israeli army knowing that it does not fire on clearly marked UN vehicles," UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

"We have to receive from the Israeli authorities an absolute guarantee that this effective coordination mechanism is in place," he stressed.

Jerusalem- A United Nations report released Friday said that earlier this week Israeli forces repeatedly shelled a home to which the UN had evacuated about 110 Palestinians in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, killing around 30 people.

The Israeli military said it had no immediate comment.

"We received eyewitness accounts from several survivors," said Allegrea Pacheco, the deputy head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

United Nations, Jan 89 : The UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and durable truce between Israel and Hamas after three days of intense negotiations.

The resolution passed on Thursday night by a 14-0 vote, with the United States abstaining, FOX News reported.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US agrees with the principles of the cease-fire resolution but wants to see the outcome of an Egyptian effort to bring the Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table.

New York  - Saudi Arabia and Britain said late Thursday that a final text on the Gaza conflict was agreed on by Western and Arab nations, and they expect a vote soon by the UN Security Council in New York, after diplomats spent three days forging the language.

Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, called the compromise "a historic event," speaking to reporters late Thursday following hours of negotiations between the two sides.

New York  - The United Nations Security Council called for an emergency meeting late Thursday after Western and Arab nations arrived at a compromise text to end the Israel-Hamas fighting.

The text was hammered out following day-long negotiations at UN headquarters in New York between foreign ministers of the United States, France and Britain on one side and high-ranking Arab government officials and the Arab League on the other.

Gaza  - A driver and another worker bringing humanitarian supplies from the northern crossing point of the Gaza Strip into the territory was killed when the aid convoy came under Israeli fire, a spokesman for the United Nations said.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said it was subsequently suspending all its activity in the enclave.

In a second incident later in the day another UN convoy with international staff, heading from Gaza City to the southern town of Rafah, also came under fire, and one more person was injured.