A crater is left at a spot targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City early Thursday, November 15. Rockets and shells crisscrossed the skies over southern Israel and Gaza on Thursday as Palestinian militants continued rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and Israel pounded what it called terror sites.
Israeli soldiers rest by their armored personnel carriers stationed on the Israel-Gaza border on Thursday.
Rescue workers evacuate a body Thursday in the Israeli town of Kiryat Malakhi after a rocket launched from Gaza hit an apartment building.
Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Hanen Tafish, a 10-month-old girl, at the morgue of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Thursday after she died following an Israeli air strike in the Zeitun neighbourhood.
Palestinians watch a funeral Thursday in southern Gaza.
A Palestinian pleads for help as he and others try to save a man trapped under his car after an Israeli air raid Thursday in northern Gaza.
Israeli police inspect an apartment building hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Kiryat Malakhi on Thursday. At least three Israelis were killed and four were wounded, an Israeli police spokesman said.
The Israeli military launches a missile Thursday from the southern city of Beersheba.
A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli airstrike inside Gaza on Thursday.
A Palestinian man inspects his damaged house following an Israeli airstrike early Thursday in Gaza City.
An Israeli reacts after a rocket launched from Gaza hits a building Thursday in Kiryat Malakhi.
Palestinian firefighters extinguish the blaze from the car of Ahmed al-Jaabari, head of Hamas' military wing, after an Israeli airstrike hit it in Gaza City on Wednesday, November 14. The Israeli strike killed al-Jaabari.
A woman sits inside a bomb shelter Wednesday in Netivot, Israel.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike Wednesday in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire from the car in which al-Jaabari was apparently riding.
A Palestinian man cries as security forces wheel al-Jaabari's body into a hospital.
Palestinian youths look inside a building where al-Jaabari's body was brought after the attack.
A wounded Palestinian girl cries at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Palestinian youths evacuate an elderly man following an Israeli airstrike.
Palestinian civilians leave their houses following an Israeli airstrike.
- Most shops in Gaza City's center are shuttered and streets are nearly empty
- A Gaza mosque chant celebrated news a rocket neared Tel Aviv
- Frequent explosions signal Israeli airstrikes hitting what the IDF calls terror sites
- Smoke plumes pinpoint where Israel's missile defense system intercepts rockets from Gaza
Gaza City (CNN) -- A mix of explosions filled Gaza City's air late Thursday, but not all were blasts of war.
A celebration erupted as a mosque loudspeaker chant proclaimed: "God is great. We have hit Tel Aviv."
Rockets fired straight upward were not targeted at an enemy, but were aimed at raising spirits with claims that militant missiles launched from Gaza reached Israel's government center 45 miles (71 kilometers) away.
One Gaza-launched rocket landing just south of Tel Aviv Thursday, in an open area near Rishon LeZion, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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Knowing that air sirens had sounded inside and outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv apparently gave comfort to some of the Gaza residents who are facing the possibility of another full-scale war with Israel -- four years after the last one.
At least three Israelis were killed and four were wounded when a rocket struck an apartment building in the town of Kiryat Malakhi Thursday, an Israeli police spokesman said.
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The sounds of Gaza also included frequent explosions signaling another Israeli airstrike hitting what the IDF called terror sites, including Hamas weapons, storage bunkers, weapons labs and workshops. The IDF reported it attacked 300 sites by late Thursday.
Eighteen people, including two children, were killed in airstrikes in Gaza Thursday, the health ministry in Gaza said. Of the casualties, nine were Hamas militants, a Hamas source told CNN.
Gaza City is filled with people, 1.6 million Palestinians packed into 139 square miles (360 square kilometers) surrounded and isolated through decades of distrust, anger and occasional war.
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The main commercial area of the city is usually filled with cars and people, but on this Thursday evening many of the shops were shuttered and the streets were nearly empty. With electrical service still working, the Gaza City skyline was lighted at dusk.
A massive explosion hours after sunset was immediately followed by a power outage and a darkened skyline, illuminated only by other blasts.
Tiny plumes of smoke rose on that skyline, pinpointing where Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted rockets from Gaza before the missiles reached the ground. The IDF estimated it stopped about 130 of the 300 fired by Thursday afternoon.
There was a huge gathering of people in Gaza on Thursday. Thousands crammed narrow streets for the funeral of Ahmed al-Jaabari, the popular head of the Hamas military wing killed in an airstrike Wednesday.
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