Three people have been killed in southern Israel by rockets fired from Gaza. It marks the first Israeli fatalities since militants fired into Israel after it killed a Hamas chief yesterday. Eleven Palestinians - mainly militants, but also children - have been killed in the ensuing Israeli operation.

BBC reporters Yolande Knell, in the town of Kiryat Malachi on the Israeli/Gaza border and Jon Donnison, in Gaza, have the latest on the attacks.

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