Israel rejects truce, continues operations in Gaza (picture of the day)

Israeli armored vehicles carrying soldiers from the Golani Brigades leave the northern Gaza Strip to a base near Kibbutz Zikim, Israel, Saturday, July 8, 2006. Israel sent troops and tanks into eastern Gaza on Saturday and clashed with militants in a broadened incursion aimed at forcing the release of a captured soldier. The Israeli force entered Gaza early Saturday near the Karni commercial crossing, advancing into Gaza just a quarter mile from the Shajaiyeh and Zeitun neighborhoods