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Rockets are fired from Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas militants. US President Joe Biden is due to visit Israel on Wednesday, 12 days after Gaza-based Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on 7 October, triggering a full-scale war that has claimed thousands of lives, most of them civilians on both sides. IMAGES
Rockets are being launched from the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, towards Israeli territory, with some intercepted by Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-aircraft defence system. Thousands of people have been killed since Hamas' October 7 attack, with most of the dead on both sides civilians. IMAGES
The Israeli army launched air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip at dawn on Thursday after rockets were fired from the territory into Israel about two hours earlier. Shortly after 6:00 am local time (0400 GMT), black smoke rose over one of the targeted locations north of Gaza City. In a statement sent to the press a few minutes later, the Israeli army said that it was "carrying out strikes in the Gaza Strip". IMAGES
Strikes and flares are seen over northern Gaza from the Israeli city of Sderot, after Israel and Hamas brushed off international calls to renew an expired truce on Saturday. Resumed air strikes pounded militant targets in Gaza and Palestinian groups fired volleys of rockets the other way, following the end of a truce on Friday that marked the first pause in the fighting since October 7, when Hamas launched its deadly attacks. The attacks killed 1,200 people and saw a further 240 taken hostage by the group, with Israel's response -- a relentless military operation -- killing more than 15,000 in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. IMAGES
A barrage of rockets is fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, some intercepted by the Iron Dome defence system, on the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has killed 26 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. IMAGES
Sirens blare in the streets and the Azrieli shopping mall of Tel Aviv, in Israel, after Hamas says it launched rockets from the Gaza Strip. IMAGES
The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system intercepts rockets as sirens blare in Jerusalem. IMAGES
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