A summary

""The death toll of Palestinians has risen inexorably. Twelve days after the Israeli offensive began, Palestinians put the number at more than 770, with at least 2,500 wounded. Israel claims to have killed more than 130 Hamas fighters. Some medical sources in Gaza say that as many as 40% of
the dead are women and children, and that a large majority have been non-combatants. Several entire families have been wiped out. On January 4th Gaza's main vegetable market was hit: five people were killed, 40 wounded. Two days later a school run by the United Nations in the Jabaliya
camp was shelled, leaving at least 30 dead. Nearly all were children. Gazans have long felt they lived in an open prison; now they are trapped in a shooting gallery."" (thanks Asa)