The Israeli army says it has intensified its offensive on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, striking key Hamas sites in the second day of an operation aimed at quelling rocket fire against Israel.
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Army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner says warplanes early Wednesday attacked more than 130 sites including Hamas command centers and rocket launchers.
Palestinians stand atop the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike Wednesday. More than 20 people have been killed in Gaza in the worst fighting since 2012. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Lerner says at least four rockets were fired at Israel overnight, a decline from the large barrage the evening before. Air raid sirens wailed in Tel Aviv and southern Israel early Wednesday.
Gaza health official Ashraf Al-Kedra says overnight airstrikes killed one militant in south Gaza and an Islamic Jihad operative and five relatives in northern Gaza.
Israel is mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion of the Palestinian territory to stop the rocket fire.
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