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epa01586547 Palestinians pass by the Alshefaa mosque after it was hit in a Israeli Air Force bombing raid in Gaza City, 28 December 2008. Israel's cabinet approved on 28 December plans to call up more than 6,000 reserve soldiers, raising the possibility that the two-day old offensive against the radical Hamas movement in in the Gaza Strip could include a ground operation as well as air strikes. The Israel Air Force, however, kept up its attacks on the enclave, hitting, among other targets, Gaza City's main security compound which houses a central prison and several security force headquarters. Four people were killed in the attack, bringing to 285 the number of people, more than half of them militants, killed in the Israeli operation which began on 27 December in response to massive rocket barrages on southern Israel since a six-month truce with the militant
organizations ended. Over 900 people have been wounded. EPA/FADY ADWAN ISRAEL OUT