Israel unleashed a relentless aerial attack on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after a massive rocket barrage over the country’s commercial heartland, as the death toll climbed and the sides edged closer to all-out war.
Forty-three people have been reported killed in Gaza and six in Israel since the most serious fighting since 2014 exploded on Monday night. More than 1,000 rockets have been fired from the Palestinian enclave, and Israel has carried out about 500 raids, the Israeli military said on Wednesday. Three Palestinians have died in confrontations with Israeli security forces in the West Bank.
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