On the seventh day of a weeklong assault on Gaza, new Israeli attacks killed and maimed about 60 people by Friday evening. Nine died, including five children.

Meanwhile, Israeli sources reported that about 20 rockets were fired targeting sites in the western Negev. One injury was reported there.

Two Palestinians, a man and a woman, were killed and 20 others injured in a strike by Israeli forces on Friday evening in central Gaza. Twenty others were injured.

Local witnesses said that 22-year-old Tahani A’yesh was killed, while five of her family members suffered injuries in the Israeli shelling attack on her home near the area of Juhr Al-Deek, east of Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza.

Another Palestinian was killed when Israel’s air force targeted a civilian car, passing over a bridge in the Gaza Valley, which is in the south. Three others were injured in that attack and were transferred to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Ten others were injured after a number of airstrikes targeted the home of I’mad A’gel.

Several other places of business were struck, as well, particularly in Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Sixteen out of the 30 killed in Israeli airstrikes since New Year’s Eve were children; nine were from the same family and nine of the adults killed were women.

Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians killed so far in 2009 have been children.

On Friday the bodies of the Rayyan family children were buried, and Palestinian medical sources confirmed the deaths of three more Palestinians under 17 years old.

Seven Palestinians have been killed since midnight Thursday, bringing the death toll to 430 and the injured to 2,220 on day seven of the Israeli operation.