Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations 

    AMMAN, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday left Jordan's capital of Amman for Saudi Arabia as the Gaza Strip is under heavy air bombardment.

    Abbas strongly condemned Israeli massive air strike on the Gaza Strip, his spokesman Nabil Abu Erdeinah said in a press statement.

    Abbas asked the Israeli government to stop the attack immediately and urged for international interference to stop the Israeli aggression, Abu Erdeinah added.

    The Gaza City is currently under heavy air raids by Israel. At least 140 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 injured in the Israeli blitz, according to Palestinian hospital sources.

    Meanwhile, Israel announced that the military attacks "will be expanded, deepened and widened if necessary."

At least 140 killed in Israeli raids across Gaza Strip

A wounded Palestinian is rushed to the hospital after Israeli air force attacked Gaza City December 27, 2008. Israel's air force fired about 30 missiles at targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, destroying several Hamas police compounds and killing more than 140 people, medical officials and witnesses said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    GAZA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 140 Palestinians, most of them Hamas security members, were killed before Saturday noon when Israeli airplanes launched simultaneous strikes across the Gaza Strip, said medical sources.

    Tawfiq Jaber, chief of Hamas police, was among the dead in the series of strikes that took place in a period of two minutes, targeting almost all of Hamas-run security headquarters and training camps of its military wing. Full story

Israeli president says no plan to re-enter Gaza

    JERUSALEM, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Israel has no plan to invade the Gaza Strip in its efforts to end the continuing rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled enclave, President Shimon Peres said in an interview published Saturday.

    "Israel will take all steps demanded of it in order to stop the rocket fire," he told the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, adding that "We will not go into Gaza. There are other ways. We didn't leave Gaza in order go back." Full story