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Tel Aviv / Gaza (AP) - Militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have continued their rocket attacks on Israeli cities.
In the desert city of Beershevah in southern Israel and in border towns to the Gaza Strip, the warning sirens howled in the morning, as the Israeli military announced.
The Israeli army reportedly continued to attack targets in the Palestinian Territory.
The air force fired at several rocket launchers and two combat units belonging to the Islamist Hamas ruling in the Gaza Strip, the statement said.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa announced that a house had been hit in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza.
At least seven members of a Palestinian family were killed, including children.
Civilians were also killed in Beit Lahia in the north of the coastal strip and in other places.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the reports were being checked.
According to Wafa, 136 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since violence escalated on Monday.
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According to police, a house in the Israeli city of Beersheva was hit by rocket fragments.
There was property damage, but no injuries, it said.
The Israeli coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod were also attacked again.
As Israel's army announced, eight people were killed in Israel by the rocket fire in the past few days.
The conflict between Israel and the ruling Hamas in the Gaza Strip escalated at the beginning of the week.
Militant Palestinians are constantly bombarding Israel with rockets - according to the Israeli army, there have been more than 2000 recently. Israel is responding with massive attacks in the coastal area.
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