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News.com,

16 November, 2012

MILITANTS have defied a major Israeli bombing campaign across Gaza, firing off volleys of rockets which killed three Israelis and sparked panic in Tel Aviv.

The Israeli Defence Force said more than 300 rockets had been fired at Israel in the past few days, with one rocket hitting the central city Rishon Lezion, about 60 km from the Gaza Strip.

The IDF said three people were killed when a rocket landed on their home.

As Palestinian deaths from relentless air strikes on Gaza mounted, Defence Minister Ehud Barak gave the go-ahead for 30,000 reservists to be called up and the military said it was "in the process of expanding the campaign".

Egypt, meanwhile, announced Prime Minister Hisham Qandil would visit Gaza on Friday to express his country's solidarity with the Hamas-ruled strip, as Washington urged Cairo to use its influence to try to halt the violence.

But Gaza's ruling Hamas movement remained defiant, ruling out any talk of a truce even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned he was ready to "significantly expand" the campaign against the territory.

"In the past 24 hours, Israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. I hope that Hamas and the other terror organisations in Gaza got the message," he said, as Gaza medics reported 15 Palestinians killed in two days of air raids.

The Iron Dome defence system fires to intercept incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod on Thursday. Picture: Tsafrir Abayov.......

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