Palestinian rockets struck deep inside Israel yesterday, landing closer to the urban sprawl south of Tel Aviv, and Israeli aircraft pounded targets in Gaza, raising fears of a new war.
Israeli police said long-range rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hit Ashdod and an area north of the Mediterranean port. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Violence along the Gaza border has worsened in recent days and a bomb attack on Wednesday in Jerusalem killed one woman and injured 30 people. It was the first such bombing in the city since 2004.
Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza, attacking smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border.
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