The volley of 130 rockets, which killed a six-year-old boy in southern Israel and set off air raid warnings up to Tel Aviv, was a response to the destruction of Gaza City's Al-Farouk tower.
Hamas unleashed a fresh barrage of deadly rocket fire towards Israel Wednesday in retaliation for the levelling of a 14-story building in Gaza by Israel, which ruled out an imminent ceasefire.

Hamas said the volley of 130 rockets, which killed a six-year-old boy in southern Israel and set off air raid warnings up to Tel Aviv, was a response to the destruction of Gaza City's Al-Farouk tower.

Israel's Defence Minister Benny Gantz had earlier vowed more attacks on Hamas and other Islamist militant groups in Gaza to bring "total, long-term quiet" before considering a ceasefire.

"This is just the beginning," warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We'll deliver them blows they haven't dreamt of."

Gaza militants have launched more than 1,000 rockets since Monday, said Israel's army, which has carried out more than 350 air strikes on the crowded coastal enclave, targeting what it calls military sites.

The most intense hostilities in seven years have killed at least 56 people in Gaza, including 14 children, and seven in Israel, including a soldier and one Indian national, since Monday.

The six-year-old boy died after a rocket struck his home in Sderot, where four other people were being treated for injuries, the United Hatzalah volunteer rescue agency said.

Three Palestinians have been killed in West Bank clashes since Monday. And at least 230 Palestinians and 110 Israelis have been wounded.

The bloodshed was triggered by weekend unrest at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

Fears of 'full-scale war'
As world powers voiced growing alarm over the crisis, the UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland warned that "we're escalating towards a full-scale war".

The UN Security Council held another emergency meeting without agreeing on a joint statement due to opposition from the United States, Israel's ally.

Mr. Netanyahu spoke on late Wednesday to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who reiterated his call to "end the violence".

Mr. Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in the mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli city of Lod, where police said "wide-scale riots erupted among some of the Arab residents", and authorities later imposed an overnight curfew there.

There were fears of widening civil unrest as protesters waving Palestinian flags burnt cars and properties, including a synagogue, clashed with Israeli police and attacked Jewish motorists in several Jewish-Arab towns.

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, in unusually strong language, denounced what he described as a "pogrom" in which "an incited and bloodthirsty Arab mob" had injured people and attacked sacred Jewish spaces.

Hamas said several of its top commanders have been killed in Israeli strikes, including its military chief in Gaza City, Bassem Issa.

Its leader Ismail Haniyeh threatened to step up attacks, warning that "if Israel wants to escalate, we are ready for it".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged both sides to "step back from the brink".

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said "everything must be done" to avoid a new Middle East conflict.

'We don't have a safe room'
In Gaza City, people have sifted through debris after a previous Israeli air strike destroyed a 12-storey building that Hamas said had been a residential building. It was also known to house the offices of several Hamas officials.

Five members of a single family were killed by an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Tuesday, including young brothers Ibrahim and Marwan, who were filling sacks of straw at the time.

"We were laughing and having fun when suddenly they began to bomb us. Everything around us caught fire," their cousin, also called Ibrahim, said.

In Israel's central city of Lod, a man and a girl were killed on Wednesday by rocket fire from Gaza. Israel identified one of the dead as 16-year-old Nadin Awad, an Arab Israeli.

Her cousin, Ahmad Ismail, told public broadcaster Kan that he was near Nadin when she was killed alongside her father Khalil Awad, 52.

"I was at home, we heard the noise of the rocket," said Ismail. "It happened so quickly. Even if we had wanted to run somewhere, we don't have a safe room."

An Israeli woman was killed when rockets hit Rishon Letzion near Tel Aviv. In Ashkelon, a town near Gaza which Hamas threatened to turn into "hell", rockets fired by militants killed two women on Tuesday.

The crisis flared last Friday when weeks of tensions boiled over and Israeli riot police clashed with crowds of Palestinians at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.

Nightly disturbances have since flared in east Jerusalem, leaving more than 900 Palestinians injured, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The unrest has been driven by anger over the looming evictions of Palestinian families from the Jerusalem

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No country would accept hundreds of missile their way.

Isn't it wonderful that Nigerian Christians are suddenly celebrating the death of 65 civilians (mostly women and children) blown in their apartment building since it was done by their dearest Isrealis who should be facing hamas and not women and children

Now the hypocrites would wail and wail if Dr Isa Pantanmi tweets that he supports Palestinians retailiation... They would suddenly start screaming terrorism


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Righteousness2:
1200 Rockets Fired into Israel since Monday!
Israel IDF Force Retaliates!
Hamas and Abass of Palestine begin to shout UN! UN! UN!
I Stand Proudly with Israel

PASTOR!!!!

I too love Israel, please keep on repopulating the kingdom of aLlah with terrorist

Only three countries know how to deal with Islam, those countries are China, Israel and Myanmar.

I find it funny that in the 7th century the Israelis where forcefully kicked out of the East Jerusalem and the Middle East as a battered people.
The Muslims built the Al-Aqsa mosque and called it their 3rd holiest site.

The Muslim quran is evidence of the unhinged bigotry and undeserved hatred against Jews and Christians.

In 1967, the Arabs fought an ill advised war against Israel and lost while Israel took back east Jerusalem.

How dare the Arabs call Israel an occupying force? Are "Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem" Arabic words?
If the Palestinians claim they have historical right to Jerusalem pre 1967, well so does Israel have historical claim from the pre 7th century.

iammo:




Isn't it wonderful that Nigerian Christians are suddenly celebrating the death of 65 civilians (mostly women and children) blown in their apartment building since it was done by their dearest Isrealis who should be facing hamas and not women and children

Now the hypocrites would wail and wail if Dr Isa Pantanmi tweets that he supports Palestinians retailiation... They would suddenly start screaming terrorism


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Oh shut the hell up!!!! Wen Hamas started by launching series of rockets into Isreal with some hitting civilian targets what were dey expecting? If not for dis show of force weneva they are attacked, Israel would have been overrun and wiped off the face of the earth by its neighbours who have always been vocal about dat

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Oh shut the hell up!!!! Wen Hamas started by launching series of rockets into Isreal with some hitting civilian targets what were dey expecting?

It's simple logic

ESN militia (Hamas) lunched attack on Nigerian territory (Isrealis)

In retailiation, Nigerian Army targeted and blew up Onitsha Main market to Upper Uweka, were innocent civilians are... where 65 Ibo traders lost their lives instead of ESN militia....


If this was the scenerio would you still rejoice at the death of the 65 civilians

Be honest with yourself

Buharo will not like this. He should send forces to fight isreal

If I were to be israeli prime minister I would have leveled the palestinian state. The only guaranted peace in the middle east to to remove and relacate the less than 2 million palestine state from there. There was no palestinian state there before. It was when the jew created their jewish state that the arab stared the draged it and created a palestinian state. Their history is because they don't want to hear a jewish state among their mist.

The is the time for everlasting peace in that region to distroyed the palestinian government and relocate the palestine from that place entirely.

iammo:




Isn't it wonderful that Nigerian Christians are suddenly celebrating the death of 65 civilians (mostly women and children) blown in their apartment building since it was done by their dearest Isrealis who should be facing hamas and not women and children

Now the hypocrites would wail and wail if Dr Isa Pantanmi tweets that he supports Palestinians retailiation... They would suddenly start screaming terrorism


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You left the action provoking the reaction and reacted to the reaction. Use your brain. I would have equally supported Hamas if Israel had provoked a reaction from them. Learn to be objective.

iammo:


It's simple logic

ESN militia (Hamas) lunched attack on Nigerian territory (Isrealis)

In retailiation, Nigerian Army targeted and blew up Onitsha Main market to Upper Uweka, were innocent civilians are... where 65 Ibo traders lost their lives instead of ESN militia....


If this was the scenerio would you still rejoice at the death of the 65 civilians

Be honest with yourself

Since the militia decided to hide within innocent populace, I can't fault Israel for incurring some inevitable collateral damages.

iammo:


It's simple logic

ESN militia (Hamas) lunched attack on Nigerian territory (Isrealis)

In retailiation, Nigerian Army targeted and blew up Onitsha Main market to Upper Uweka, were innocent civilians are... where 65 Ibo traders lost their lives instead of ESN militia....


If this was the scenerio would you still rejoice at the death of the 65 civilians

Be honest with yourself

Some of U are jus funny and always try to b sensible by half. Israel is a sovereign state and has the right to defend it's territory against any foreign aggression. Palestine is also a sovereign state and will take the brunt of any aggression it decides to show. Nigeria is a sovereign state but is ESN(IPOB) a country of it's own? The Nigerian Army bombing Onitsha main market would mean Nigerian Army bombing it's own territory and it will definitely have to ansa questions over that