Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 10 people on Saturday, including a Hamas military commander, also destroying a school and hit ting the port, while European Union officials travel to the region to broker a humanitarian truce. An overnight raid killed Mohammad Al-Jammal, 40, who sources in Gaza said was a local commander of Hamas's armed wing. The Israeli military said Jammal was responsible “for the entire rocket launching enterprise in all of Gaza City.” A raid on a car near the southern city of Khan Yunis killed two men, medics said. The identity of the victims was not immediately available. East of Khan Yunis, a guard was killed when a missile struck and demolished a school which the Israeli military said was being used as a base for “firing a large number of rockets.” The establishment, called the American School, has no links to the United States and all of the staff and students were Palestinian. At least 442 people have been killed, including 75 children, and another 2,290 wounded, according to Gaza medics. European foreign ministers will set off Sunday to the Middle East in order to try and push for a humanitarian truce in Gaza, officials said. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will go to the region with French and Swedish counterparts plus EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. The EU will be looking to find out how much help is needed and what supplies are actually getting into Gaza as part of their investigation into the humanitarian situation in the battered territory. In Syria President Bashar Al-Assad met with Iran's Supreme National Council chief Saeed Jalili to discuss the situation in Gaza following meetings by Jalili and exiled Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah on Friday. Japan has pledged $10 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza, Japanese foreign ministry officials said.
