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(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV/GAZA, JANUARY 6 - The Israeli troops continue to advance in the Gaza Strip and this morning the tanks moved into Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, the largest city south of the Strip. From his part, for the first time Hamas has used more long-range rockets than before and some of them hit the city of Ghedera, 45 km North-East of the Strip and just 40km from Tel Aviv. Some rockets also hit Ashdod, Yavne and beer Sheva. Clashes also occur in the refugee camp of Jabaliya, North of Gaza City, where the army has probably killed a military head of Hamas. And while French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Damascus and asked Syria to exert pressure on Hamas in order to stop using the arms, the air raids and bombings from the sea continued. In Deir el-Balah, in particolar, according to Palestinian medical sources, the naval artillery has caused at least 10 dead, but the news was not confirmed by Israel yet. Yesterday evening three Israeli soldiers were killed and other 24 were injured by an Israeli tank shell fired in error during fighting in the Gaza Strip. On the Palestinian front, according to Palestinian agency Maan, 19 died today during clashes between militants and the army. According to a spokesperson of the army, since the conflict has began in the Gaza Strip at least 130 combatants of Hamas have been killed. Palestinian sources say that 575 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,000 injured since the beginning of the offensive which began on December 27 with air strikes. (ANSAmed).