Israel begins a fresh wave of air strikes in the Gaza Strip after it killed 230 people and wounded 800 others on Saturday.

Press TV (28 December 2008) - Israeli warplanes staged an air strike early Sunday in the southern Gaza Strip, targeting a fuel truck traveling outside Rafah near the Egyptian border, witnesses said.

Hamas radio reported that several people had been killed and wounded, but local medics could not immediately confirm the number of casualties.

An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv told AFP that Israeli aircraft had staged several air strikes throughout the night, one of which was staged against a mosque in Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City.

According to Israeli public radio, the military carried out at least 20 airstrikes across the impoverished region over night.