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Rockets are fired from northern Gaza, flairs are fired over the territory (00:40) and a tank is seen manoeuvring (00:26). Israel's intensifying land and air campaign since Hamas's October 7 attacks has heightened fears for the 2.4 million civilians trapped inside besieged Gaza, where the Hamas-ruled health ministry says more than 8,000 people have died. IMAGES
Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel's Ashdod, seen from Sderot. IMAGES
Images show rockets being fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Violence has surged across the West Bank for months and intensified further since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the Palestinian militant group's unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7. IMAGES
Several rockets are fired from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory. IMAGES
Several rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, seen from the Israeli city of Sderot. Israel sent tanks, troops and armoured bulldozers into the Gaza Strip in a "targeted raid" overnight that destroyed several sites before withdrawing from the Hamas-ruled territory,the army said. IMAGES
A salvo of rockets is fired from the southern Gaza Strip towards central Israel. IMAGES
Rockets are fired towards Israel from Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip as the war between Hamas and Israel enters its fourth month. Israel's army said late Saturday its forces would now focus on central and southern areas of the territory having "completed the dismantling of the Hamas military framework in the northern Gaza Strip". IMAGES
Several rockets fired from the Gaza Strip at Jerusalem fly over Gaza City. IMAGES
Sirens go off in Tel Aviv and explosions can be heard as Iron Dome intercepts rockets fired from Gaza. On Friday, with the war in its third month since October 7 and Israeli forces squeezing Gaza's main cities, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the unprecedented step of invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter, which allows him to convene the Security Council over any matter that he sees as "threatening the maintenance of international peace and security." IMAGES
Smoke trails are seen in the sky after rocket fire from the southern Gaza town of Rafah towards Israel. On Wednesday, Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in Khan Yunis, just to the north of Rafah, with tanks, armoured personnel carriers and bulldozers entering the city. IMAGES
Rockets fired from northern Rafah towards Israel, as Israel's army sent dozens of tanks into southern Gaza as part of its operations against Hamas and its allies in the besieged territory, despite global concern over mounting civilian deaths. IMAGES