以色列徵召1萬6千預備役軍人

Israel is calling up 16,000 reserve troops to help in its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which continued for a 24th day Thursday with more airstrikes and heavy tank shelling.

The move comes a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet decided to continue the offensive that has killed more than 1,300 people in the Palestinian territory since July 8. Fifty-six Israeli soldiers have also died.

Israel has sent envoys to Egypt to discuss a possible cease-fire. So far, international efforts to halt the fighting have been unsuccessful, including an earlier Egyptian plan that never took hold.

As the violence continued Thursday, the United Nations reported about 15,000 more Palestinians seeking refuge in its shelters in Gaza. That brought the total number to 220,000, which is about four times what the U.N. says it expected from the crisis.以色列徵召1萬6千名預備役軍人，增援在加沙地帶的打擊哈馬斯行動。到星期四，這一軍事行動已經持續了24天，以色列軍隊繼續進行空襲和坦克炮擊。

以色列總理內塔尼亞胡的安全內閣星期三決定繼續進攻。自7月8日以來，在加沙地帶已有1千3百多人被打死，56名以色列軍人陣亡。

以色列派遣特使前往埃及，討論停火的可能性。到目前爲止，國際間爭取停火的努力沒有取得成功，埃及早些時候提出的停火方案一直沒有落實。

在暴力衝突於星期四繼續進行之際，聯合國報告說，又有1萬5千名巴勒斯坦人進入聯合國在加沙地帶建立的避難所。難民總數達到22萬。這是聯合國預計的難民人數的四倍左右。