Netanyahu: 'We are trying to avoid civilian casualties'

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Hamas "deliberately targets our children and they deliberately place their rockets next to their children."

He also said: "Israel will continue to do everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties".

He was speaking amid escalating cross-border violence which has seen three Israelis and fifteen Palestinians reportedly killed.

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