On December 27, 2008 (December 1, 2008 lunar calendar), Israel carried out air strikes on Gaza. On December 29, Gaza, Hamas militant groups fired Qassam rockets into Israel. The war on Gaza began at 11:30 am (local time) on December 27, 2008. The Israel Defense Forces carried out airstrikes code-named "Operation Cast Lead" against Hamas targets in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. 450 Hamas targets, including police stations, prisons and command centers, were destroyed. The United Nations said 320 Palestinians were killed and 1,400 injured in the first two days of airstrikes. In retaliation for the Israeli military strikes, Hamas fired rockets and mortars at targets in Israel. At the same time, northern Israel was also hit by rockets fired from the direction of Lebanon. After a week of airstrikes, Israel sent ground troops into the Gaza Strip on January 3 of the following year. Israel claims that the war operation began when Hamas took advantage of the ceasefire period to secretly import a large number of rockets and fired a large number of rockets into Israel after the ceasefire expired, attacking civilians. Hamas fired more than 80 rockets into Israel on December 24 alone. The media accused Israel of using a banned weapon, white phosphorus, in the densely populated Gaza Strip, such as The Times. Israel publicly admitted to using white phosphorus in the Gaza war on January 20, 2009. On December 29, 2009, Palestinian boys threw stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron. Israel's air campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day on the 29th. According to the latest statistics from Palestinian medical staff, the number of people killed in the air strike has reached 364, and more than 1,550 people have been injured. On December 29, Palestinians fled the tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron. On December 29, five girls aged 4 to 17 from the same family were all killed by Israeli air strikes on the evening of the 28th. The girl's father, Barusha, said that the family was sleeping in a mosque when the attack occurred. The mosque was hit by artillery fire and collapsed. He, his wife and several children were rescued from the rubble by neighbors, but the other five daughters were unfortunately killed. Relatives of five sisters grieve next to their bodies in Beit Lasia, northern Gaza, on Dec. 29. Three Palestinian brothers, ages 8, 12 and 14, were killed by an Israeli missile in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, on Dec. 29. A relative's eyes fill with grief during the funeral ceremony of the three brothers in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, on Dec. 29. Palestinians fire rocks at Israeli soldiers with homemade slingshots in Gaza. Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians in the Qalandya refugee camp north of Jerusalem, on Dec. 29. Palestinians inspect a Hamas building destroyed by Israel. On December 29, Jordan's capital Amman, King Abdullah II of Jordan donated blood for Palestinians injured in Israeli bombing. On December 29, Israeli rescue workers carried the body of a deceased in the southern city of Ashclone. That morning, the southern Israeli city of Ashclone was attacked by rockets fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. One Israeli was killed and 10 others were injured in the attack. On December 29, Israeli armored forces massed on the Israel-Gaza border. Israel continued to send additional soldiers, tanks and armored vehicles to the Gaza border area in preparation for a possible ground offensive. Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes continued to carry out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip. On December 29, Israeli armored forces massed on the Israel-Gaza border. On December 29, Israeli armored forces were massing towards the Gaza Strip in preparation for a possible ground offensive. On December 29, Israeli armored forces drove along the northern border strip of Gaza. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 29 to protest Israel's air strikes on the Gaza Strip. On December 29, people sympathetic to Palestine clashed with police during a demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy in London. On December 29, Sudanese students demonstrated outside the United Nations office in Sudan in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to protest Israel's air strikes on the Gaza Strip.