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A rocket barrage from the Gaza Strip is seen launched towards central Israel. IMAGES
Images of new rockets fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel as the Israeli army and Gaza militants trade heavy cross-border fire. Rocket fire from Gaza killed one person in the central Israeli city of Rehovot and injured at least two others, Israeli police said. 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
Smoke rises in Yavne, around 30 km south of Tel Aviv, after a barrage of rockets was fired from Gaza towards Israel. Warning sirens sounded across the country's south and central areas, with the Israeli army urging the public to stay near bomb shelters. IMAGES
People step out of their cars on a highway leading to Tel Aviv as sirens blare in central Israel. Israel's army said at least eight rockets were fired towards central Israel from Gaza's far-southern city of Rafah, where its forces have been battling Palestinian militants. 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