A Palestinian man looks at a destroyed building in Gaza on May 12, 2021. (Photo: AFP-Yonhap News)
[Anchor]
Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have exchanged throughout the night and into the early hours of the morning their heaviest bombardments in years.
The Israeli Army says nearly 1,000 rockets have now been fired from Gaza towards Israel since the latest conflict erupted on Monday.
Tel Aviv and central Israel have come under attack, with hundreds of thousands forced to take refuge in shelters.
Israel has also carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Gaza.
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen reports.
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It was another hard night for civilians inside Gaza and in Israeli towns on the other side of the border wire.
It looks as if the conflict is escalating.
Israel's next decision will be whether to send troops into Gaza.
The best chance of a ceasefire is from outside mediation, most likely through Egypt.
But at the moment, both Israel and Hamas are ramping up their rhetoric as well as continuing missile and rocket strikes.
There's also been trouble in Israeli towns with mixed Jewish-Palestinian populations.
The anger about events in Jerusalem and Gaza has caused communal violence and attacks on property.
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