Israel is continuing its air strike campaign against targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Palestinian deathtoll has surpassed 230, and is still rising. Meanwhile hundreds of others have been wounded. The number of casualties is expected to rise.

Bodies of Palestinian Hamas policemen are scattered on the ground following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on December 27, 2008. About 200 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded in a series of simultaneous Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip. [Xinhua/Stringer]

In the first attack early on Sunday, Palestinians say Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque near a hospital in Gaza City. At least two bodies have been pulled from the rubble. The Israeli military has not yet commented. The air strikes on Gaza began on Saturday. Over 30 targets were bombed, many of them security compounds run by the Islamic Hamas Movement.

Palestinian officials say more than 200 people were killed on Saturday. That's the highest number of dead in a single day during Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip since the Jewish State was established in 1948. Israel says the current air strikes are in retaliation against the recent barrage of rocket and mortar fire by Gaza militants.

(CCTV December 29, 2008)