Gazan authorities reported four Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the escalation that began yesterday
, but Israel disputed their account of the deaths of a pregnant mother and her baby.
Beyond the man killed, an 80-year-old woman was seriously injured in a rocket strike on the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, police and medics said. Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee on Twitter challenged the account of the mother and her baby being killed in an Israeli strike, suggesting they died from Palestinian fire.
Its armed wing distributed a video showing militants handling rockets and threatening key Israeli sites, including Ben-Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv. The United States condemned the rocket attacks on Israel and said it fully supported its "right to self-defence against these abhorrent attacks."
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