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| Gaza missiles fired at Tel Aviv | Gaza missiles fired at Tel Aviv |
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| Palestinian militants have attempted to hit Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, with missiles fired from Gaza. | |
| Sirens sounded in the city and residents took cover, but the Israeli military says no rockets struck home. | |
| An Israeli military spokesman said two missiles had been launched towards the Tel Aviv area but neither had hit it. | An Israeli military spokesman said two missiles had been launched towards the Tel Aviv area but neither had hit it. |
| Three Israelis were killed by rockets from Gaza earlier, while 15 Palestinians have been killed in two days of Israeli attacks on Gaza. | Three Israelis were killed by rockets from Gaza earlier, while 15 Palestinians have been killed in two days of Israeli attacks on Gaza. |
| While hundreds of rockets have landed in southern Israel in recent days, any missile landing in Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital and most populous city, would mark a significant escalation of the conflict. | |
| Reports say at least one missile landed in the sea off the city. | |
| The armed wing of Islamic Jihad said it had fired an Iranian-built rocket at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, AFP news agency reports. | |
| "The Quds Brigades hit the occupied city of Tel Rabea (Tel Aviv) with a Fajr-5 rocket causing a large explosion to shake the city," the group said in a brief statement. | |
| This is the first time Tel Aviv has been threatened by missiles since the 1991 Gulf War, when missiles fired by Saddam Hussein's Iraq landed in the city. | |
| The Times of Israel website says sirens were also sounded in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bnei Brak, Givatayim, and Ramat Gan. |