Gaza toll hits 19 as rockets kill 3 Israelis
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Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes targeted an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An Israeli left-wing woman holds a placard as she demonstrates in Jerusalem on Nov 15, 2012, against Israel's ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip. Several Palestinians and Israelis were killed in a wave of unrelenting cross-border fighting as the Jewish state pressed a vast air offensive on Gaza. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Men lower the body of Aaron Smadja, one of the three Israelis killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, during his funeral at a cemetery in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A 155mm mobile cannon (front) is seen after it was transported to an area just outside the northern Gaza Strip on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes targeted an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City, on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Israeli soldiers take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets before the funeral of Aaron Smadja, one of the three Israelis killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, at a cemetery in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday, Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes targeted an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An Israeli left-wing woman holds a placard as she demonstrates in Jerusalem on Nov 15, 2012, against Israel's ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip. Several Palestinians and Israelis were killed in a wave of unrelenting cross-border fighting as the Jewish state pressed a vast air offensive on Gaza. -- PHOTO: AFP
Men lower the body of Aaron Smadja, one of the three Israelis killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, during his funeral at a cemetery in the southern city of Kiryat Malachi on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A 155mm mobile cannon (front) is seen after it was transported to an area just outside the northern Gaza Strip on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Palestinians extinguish a fire after Israeli air strikes targeted an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City, on Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Israeli soldiers take cover as an air raid siren warns of incoming rockets before the funeral of Aaron Smadja, one of the three Israelis killed by a rocket fired from Gaza, at a cemetery in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday, Nov 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The death toll in more than 24 hours of Israeli air strikes on Gaza rose to 19 on late Thursday, as Palestinian militants fired more than 380 rockets at Israel, killing three people.
More than 160 Gazans have also been injured in the relentless Israeli campaign of air strikes, which continued into Thursday evening with a series of raids near midnight on Beit Hanun in the north of the Strip and in northern Gaza City.
"Three citizens were martyred and 12 injured in an air strike in Beit Hanun," emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told.
Eyewitnesses said the strike hit a house, and that two brothers were among the dead.
