The Israeli prime minister said Friday Israel would continue its military offensive in Gaza despite the UN Security Council's resolution calling for an immediate and durable Gaza ceasefire.

Fighting continued in Gaza Friday despite a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities. Both sides in the conflict rejected demands for an immediate cease-fire.

Israel has been pounding targets in Gaza for nearly two weeks, aiming to destroy the militant Islamic group Hamas' ability to launch rockets at its territory. As both sides study a ceasefire proposal, Israel has committed to stopping its attacks for a few hours each day and allow humanitarian shipments of food and fuel into the Gaza Strip.

At least four Katyusha rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon, injuring at least five people. The rockets landed just six miles from the Israel-Lebanon border in the Israeli city of Nahariya.

The defense Minister of Israel Ehud Barak on Wednesday morning ordered the opening of border crossings into the Gaza Strip to allow for the transfer of humanitarian aid.

Victims of the Israeli occupation forces in the tenth day of their attacks on Gaza Strip - January 5, 2009. We call to stop this slaughter as the use of force by Israel is disproportinate and innocent children are dying. When I saw the pictures of innocent children killed by Israel, as a father I have no word by to add my voice to stop Israeli massacre of innocent civilians.

The government of Jordan appear to have heard the millions of voices asking and pleading to kick the Israeli Ambassador out of Jordan and to annul the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty in an amazing turn of events.

Diplomatic efforts to end the Gaza conflict are intensifying with a European Union delegation in Jerusalem for talks to be followed by a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza in an air and ground offensive.

Amidst ongoing Israeli bombings of Gaza, with the death toll of the bombardments up to 428 with another 2,100 people wounded, UN food agencies again warned that the people of Gaza are facing a heavy humanitarian crisis.

It was only two years ago that we waged a war with Hezbollah up in Lebanon. I spent my days online waiting for news reports on what was happening in the battlefields. This time around the online world is abuzz with more frequent (but at times speculative) information on the ongoing fighting.