07:49: Sirens sounding in Netivot and Ofakim.

8:02AM: Two more rockets fired into the Eshkol region. No injuries.

**The IDF has announced that it will once again observe a three-hour humanitarian pause in the counter-terror offensive on Thursday from 11:00AM-2:00PM.

**Al-Jazeera reports since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, 1,033 people were killed in Gaza and 4,850 injured.

**Hamas sources report IDF tanks during the night continued advancing in Gaza City. There are also reports of exchanges of gunfire between soldiers and terrorists in Zeitoun, a neighborhood in Gaza City.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)