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Pictures of military escalation in Gaza

An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, early on August 9, 2018 (photo by AP)

The Israeli military says it has carried out over 140 strikes against the Gaza Strip in a matter of hours.

The attacks came after a reported 150 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.

The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas said the rocket attacks were in retaliation for the killing of two of its fighters in Israeli tank fire in Gaza on Tuesday.

Here is a selection of photos from the escalation in fighting:

Streaks of light are pictured as rockets are launched from the northern Gaza Strip toward Israel, as seen from Sderot, on August 8, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
A picture taken on August 8, 2018 shows a smoke plume rising following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza. (By AFP)
Palestinians look at damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Al-Mughraqa on the outskirts of Gaza City, Gaza, August 9, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
Members of Hamas' military police walk through a site that was hit by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza, August 9, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
The relatives of 23-year-old Palestinian Enas Khammash, who was killed with her toddler in an Israeli airstrike, inspect their damaged home in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, August 9, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
A man cleans bloodstains inside a damaged house where a Palestinian woman and her 18-month-old child were killed, in the central Gaza Strip, August 9, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
A Palestinian woman carries a girl as she walks past the site of an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 9, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)
A picture taken on August 9, 2018 shows a damaged swimming pool in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after it was hit earlier by an Israeli airstrike. (By AFP)

 

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