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| Israel launched an aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing more than 30 targets including homes and calling it part of a campaign named Operation Protective Edge targeting Hamas militants firing rockets at Israeli targets. | Israel launched an aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing more than 30 targets including homes and calling it part of a campaign named Operation Protective Edge targeting Hamas militants firing rockets at Israeli targets. |
| The military urged Israelis within a 24-mile (40km) radius of the southern coastal territory to stay within reach of protected areas and ordered summer camps shut as a precaution against rocket fire. | The military urged Israelis within a 24-mile (40km) radius of the southern coastal territory to stay within reach of protected areas and ordered summer camps shut as a precaution against rocket fire. |
| Palestinian officials said Israel bombed more than 30 targets in little more than an hour before dawn, including two homes in southern Gaza, one of which was identified by a neighbour as belonging to a Hamas member. | Palestinian officials said Israel bombed more than 30 targets in little more than an hour before dawn, including two homes in southern Gaza, one of which was identified by a neighbour as belonging to a Hamas member. |
| Nine people suffered shrapnel injuries. There were no other reported casualties as the buildings were believed to have been evacuated beforehand. | Nine people suffered shrapnel injuries. There were no other reported casualties as the buildings were believed to have been evacuated beforehand. |
| Witnesses said a house in Khan Younis was flattened. The Palestinian health ministry said nine neighbours were wounded by debris from that bombing. | Witnesses said a house in Khan Younis was flattened. The Palestinian health ministry said nine neighbours were wounded by debris from that bombing. |
| The Palestinian interior ministry said the family in the targeted home had received a telephone call from an Israeli intelligence officer asking them to leave the house because it would be bombed, and the family evacuated in time. A military spokeswoman confirmed air strikes were launched but had no details. | The Palestinian interior ministry said the family in the targeted home had received a telephone call from an Israeli intelligence officer asking them to leave the house because it would be bombed, and the family evacuated in time. A military spokeswoman confirmed air strikes were launched but had no details. |
| Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said in a tweet that "Operation Protective Edge is under way, targeting Hamas capabilities that are terrorising Israel". | Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said in a tweet that "Operation Protective Edge is under way, targeting Hamas capabilities that are terrorising Israel". |
| Hamas's armed wing threatened an "earthquake" in response to Israel's attacks and said it had fired a rocket at a southern Israeli town. The Israeli army later said that eight more rockets and mortars were fired at | |
| Israel from Gaza starting shortly before midnight and into early | |
| Tuesday, and an additional rocket was intercepted above the Israeli town | |
| of Sderot, close to the border with Gaza. | |
| In a statement the group denounced Israel's bombing of houses as "exceeding all red lines" and threatened to shoot rockets at longer distances. "We will respond by broadening the range of our targets," the militants said. | In a statement the group denounced Israel's bombing of houses as "exceeding all red lines" and threatened to shoot rockets at longer distances. "We will respond by broadening the range of our targets," the militants said. |
| Lerner said Gaza militants had fired more than 80 rockets at Israel on Monday and military officials said more than 200 rockets have been shot at Israel in the past month. | Lerner said Gaza militants had fired more than 80 rockets at Israel on Monday and military officials said more than 200 rockets have been shot at Israel in the past month. |
| Hamas said seven of its men were killed by an Israeli air strike early on Monday morning that struck a tunnel used by the group. | Hamas said seven of its men were killed by an Israeli air strike early on Monday morning that struck a tunnel used by the group. |
| The surge in violence has raged since the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths last month in the occupied West Bank, and of a Palestinian teen last week in an attack for which Israel has arrested six Jewish suspects. | The surge in violence has raged since the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths last month in the occupied West Bank, and of a Palestinian teen last week in an attack for which Israel has arrested six Jewish suspects. |