Factbox - Developments in Gaza fighting 16 Jan 2009

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 1915 GMT:

GAZA - An air strike kills seven Palestinians in the Shijaiya quarter of Gaza, medical staff say.

GAZA - An Israeli tank shell kills a prominent Gaza doctor's three children and two of his brother's children in their homes in Jebalya refugee camp, Palestinian medical staff and Israel's Channel 10 television say.

WASHINGTON - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sign an agreement aimed at stopping the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip.

GAZA - An Israeli tank shelling the home of a Hamas militant killed his wife and five children in the central Gaza Strip near al-Bureij, medical officials say.

DEATH TOLL - At least 1,157 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza offensive and about 5,100 wounded, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. A Palestinian rights group said at least 670 of the dead were civilians.

Medical officials put the death toll for Friday at 30 Palestinians in Gaza.

Thirteen Israelis have been killed -- 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire --- since Dec. 27, when Israel launched a military campaign with the stated goal of halting rocket salvoes.

GAZA - An Islamic Jihad commander is killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza, medical officials say.

GAZA - The Israeli military reports 25 air strikes in Gaza against tunnels used to smuggle weapons, rocket launch sites and buildings.

GAZA - About 45,000 Palestinians fleeing battle zones in the Gaza Strip have taken refuge in U.N.-run schools, U.N. officials say.

GAZA - An Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip kills a Palestinian riding on a motorcycle and wounds another four, medical officials say.

WEST BANK - A Palestinian teenager protesting against Israel's Gaza offensive is killed in a confrontation with Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Hebron, Palestinian medical officials say. A military spokesman denies troops fired live ammunition and says Israel is investigating.

GAZA - An Israeli air strike kills two Palestinians in a car in the city of Gaza, medical officials and witnesses say.

GAZA - A Palestinian gunman is killed in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, medical officials and Hamas say.

GAZA - Two incidents involving Israeli tank shell fire kill three children in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, medical workers say.

GAZA - Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group, says in a statement three of its fighters were killed in an Israeli air strike north of the city of Gaza.

GAZA - An Israeli air strike kills a Palestinian civilian at Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, medical staff say.

SOUTHERN ISRAEL - More than 19 rockets fired from Gaza strike towns inside Israel, injuring four Israelis, an Israeli army spokesman and Israeli medical officials say.

GAZA - Israel says it allowed 109 trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza as well as 115,000 litres of fuel.

GAZA - Israel kills a senior commander of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine east of Rafah, the group says.

GAZA - Israeli air strikes and navy shelling target Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses say.

(Jerusalem Newsroom)