Israel Strikes Offensive for Freedom of Captured Soldier-Timeline
July 3 (Reuters) -
* Militants including members of the governing Hamas movement carry out cross-border raid from
June 28
* Israeli aircraft strike bridges in
* Troops and tanks enter southern
* Israeli warplanes buzz one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's palaces in a warning to him and the exiled Hamas leaders that he hosts.
June 29
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* Israeli warplanes set ablaze the Interior Ministry offices of the Hamas government in
July 1
* Factions who captured Shalit demand
* Palestinian official, quoting mediators, says Shalit is alive and in good condition after being treated for wounds.
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July 2
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* Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says
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July 3
* Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers push into the northern Gaza Strip in what an Israeli military source describes as a "pinpoint operation" to locate tunnels and explosives near the border fence.
* Militants who abducted Shalit give Israel less than 24 hours -- until 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) -- to meet their demands to release Palestinian prisoners, threatening unspecified consequences if it refuses.
* A Palestinian gunman in the northern Gaza Strip is killed by an Israeli aircraft, witnesses said.
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