More than 200 rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel in latest round of violence. The barrage was in reaction to Israeli strikes on Monday, which killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders and 10 civilians and injured 20. Read more:
Around 270 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel early on Wednesday afternoon.
Air raid sirens sounded in the border towns of Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod and further up the coast in Tel Aviv.Image:Israeli media said there had been a direct hit on a kindergarten near the Gaza Strip but no injuries were reported. Schools have been closed since Tuesday. A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces insisted Palestinian Islamic Jihad was behind the rocket launches, not Hamas, the group which controls the Gaza Strip. However Hamas has publicly supported the rocket attacks.
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