The report also noted that some 10 Israeli shells, including white phosphorus, hit the main Gaza City compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency while up to 700 civilians were sheltered there.
At the main Gaza City hospital, officials said tonight that seven people had shrapnel wounds and that a sanitation supervisor in the industrial zone, Khalid Naser, 35, had died.
Palestinian security officials committed themselves to capturing what Israel calls "ticking bombs" -- attackers on their way to strike -- while Israel promised to permit Palestinians to travel more freely, to ease its military choke points on Gaza's main north-south road, and to draw back forces in northern Gaza, officials said.
Gaza's main prison was struck, even though prisoners were still in their cells.
Gaza's main exports were strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and carnations, destined mainly for Israel and Europe.
A week ago, after two car bombings that took eight lives, the Israeli Army closed the main road in the Gaza Strip.
The worn two-lane road on which they sit is the main highway of the Gaza Strip, running from Israel in the north to Egypt in the south.
The shop is on Gaza's main boulevard across from the Palestinian Parliament building that Israeli bombs flattened during the 2008-9 wagainstnst Hamas.
Gaza's main fighting group, the Islamist movement, Hamas, has suspended attacks, at least temporarily, in an effort to consolidate its rule and prevent a renewed war with Israel which it knows it cannot win.
