15 November 2012 Last updated at 12:26

In pictures: Israel and Gaza violence

A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza Strip

Violence has been escalating after Israel killed a top Hamas military commander in an air strike in Gaza on Wednesday. Smoke can here be seen billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza Strip.

A crater at an area targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.

Israel has been exchanging fierce fire with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, and is threatening a wider offensive in the Gaza Strip; here a crater shows an area targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.

A rocket launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel makes its way from the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday 15 Nov 2012.

About 200 rockets have been fired into Israel since Wednesday, the Israeli army says. A rocket launched by Palestinian militants can be seen making its way from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel.

An Israeli soldier watches as an Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket near the southern city of Beersheba.

The Israeli army says 145 of those rockets have been destroyed by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor system, seen in action here.

A Palestinian man sits inside a damaged house after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City...

An Israeli man takes cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in Ashdod November 15, 2012.

... and an Israeli man takes cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in Ashdod.

An Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table out of a building where three Israelis were killed by a rocket fired from Gaza into the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi.

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In pictures: Israel and Gaza violence

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