JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had ordered the military to launch further strikes on Gaza Strip militants in response to rocket fire from the territory, as an esc
alation entered its second day.
Israel said around 450 rockets or mortars had been fired from the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas since Saturday, and it responded with waves of air and tank strikes. But Israel disputed their account of the deaths of a pregnant mother and her baby, blaming errant Hamas fire.
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