Smokes rise following an Israeli airstrike on an area known to have smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Jan. 3, 2009. The Israel Defense Forces Saturday evening began its ground incursion into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, vowing to destroy "terror infrastructure" of Hamas. And more than 450 Palestinians has been killed and some 2,300 wounded during Israeli ongoing intensive airstrikes since Dec. 27, 2008.[Xinhua]