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Israel launches Gaza strikes following rocket fire | |
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Israel's military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. | |
"Terror targets" were hit after three rockets were fired towards the towns of Beersheba and Netivot, officials said. | |
A five-day ceasefire was extended for 24 hours at midnight while delegations from both sides tried to negotiate a deal to end weeks of fighting. | |
More than 2,080 people, most of them Palestinians, have died since 8 July. | |
"This rocket attack was a grave and direct violation of the ceasefire," Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told the Reuters news agency. | |
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any of the Palestinian factions in Gaza, which is dominated by the Islamist movement Hamas. |