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Soldiers and tanks on border with Gaza, empty streets in south

(19 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST Beeri, southern Israel, Gaza Border 1. Wide of Israeli tanks deployed near Gaza border 2. Israeli soldiers brushing teeth and washing hands 3. Israeli soldier cleaning his boots 4. Solder fixing tank canon 5. Zoom out from moving tank 6. Various of Israeli soldiers 7. Close of tank 8. Mid of soldiers 9. Wide of tanks and armoured vehicle Sderot, southern Israel 10. Wide of Gaza Strip seen from Israel border Ashkelon, Israel 11. Wide of deserted main street in Ashkelon 12. Mid of main shopping area 13. Shopkeeper Avraham Tetroshvili displaying shoes for sale 14. Mid of restaurants 15. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Avraham Tetroshvili, Shopkeeper: "We haven't even opened the cash register. We only leave the house to come and and to tidy up a bit." 16. Taxis parked, drivers waiting for customers 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Boaz Drori, 65, taxi driver: "The business, there's no business, not work for the past few days. You see the station, all the taxis stand. Yesterday morning, about half past eight, after this building a bomb very, very strong (meaning a large rocket landed nearby) . And after many bombs here the people do not work." 18. Wide of highway with very little traffic Beer Sheba, Israel 19. Various of people boarding a bus to leave the city 20. Various of man holding up front page of newspaper with headline reading: (Hebrew) "The Army Step up the Pressure. 'We're close to the moment of Truth'." 21. Various of Iron Dome Missile defence batteries 22. Various of trucks carrying tanks driving on road STORYLINE Thousands of Israeli soldiers, backed by tanks and armoured vehicles, have already been mobilised and dispatched to Gaza's border, signalling a ground invasion could be imminent. The Palestinian civilian death toll mounted on Monday as Israeli aircraft struck densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip in a campaign to quell militant rocket fire menacing nearly half of Israel's population. An overnight airstrike on two houses belonging to an extended clan in Gaza City killed two children and two adults, and injured 42 people, said a Gaza heath official. Elsewhere, the centre of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon was all but deserted on Monday morning as the town braced for another day of rockets being launched from Gaza. Boaz Drori, a 65-year-old taxi driver, complained that the ongoing violence has affected the city's business. "There's no business, not work for the past few days ... after many bombs here the people do not work," he said. Many Israelis have been evacuating their homes in the south to stay with relatives or friends further north. Beer Sheba's nearly 200-thousand residents live just 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Gaza. Four years ago, they were hit with some 40 rockets in a three-week war between Israel and Hamas militants. On Saturday alone they were targeted by nearly as many. Thanks to Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defence system, which knocked down about half of the projectiles, and residents who followed instructions to stay in shelters at home, no one was harmed. In all, 87 Palestinians, including 50 civilians, have been killed in the six-day onslaught and 720 have been wounded. Three Israeli civilians have died from Palestinian rocket fire and dozens have been wounded. The Israeli rocket-defence system has intercepted hundreds of rockets bound for populated areas. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...