Gaza: Shejaiya residents flee after 60 dead in Israeli offensive A total of 87 Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as Israel stepped up a major offensive, in the bloodiest single day in the battered enclave in five years. Sixty of Sunday's victims died in the war-torn neighbourhood of Shejaiya which lies between Gaza City and the border, where Israel has pressed a blistering offensive, pounding the district to dust and leaving bodies strewn throughout the streets. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES