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The rocket hit the top floor of the building in Kiryat Malachi
Three people have been killed as rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel, amid escalating violence.
They died when a four-storey building in the town of Kiryat Malachi was hit.
It marks the first Israeli fatalities since Israel killed Hamas' military chief in Gaza on Wednesday.
Thirteen Palestinians, mainly militants but also children, have been killed in the ensuing Israeli operation. Since then, about 200 rockets have been fired into Israel, the Israeli army says.
It says that 145 of them were destroyed by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor system.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into Israel by militants in Gaza, and Israel carried out numerous air strikes as cross-border violence soared in recent weeks.
Israel said the head of Hamas' military wing, Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, who died when his car was hit in Gaza City, was responsible for all attacks from Gaza in the past decade.
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Hamas has been governing Gaza since 2007.
In a separate development, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly cut short a trip to Switzerland and was returning to his base in the West Bank to deal with the growing crisis.
'Gates of hell'The three Israelis - two women and a man - died when a rocket hit the top floor of the building in Kiryat Malachi, about 25km (15 miles) north of Gaza.
Three other people - a four-year-old boy and two babies - were injured, Israel's foreign ministry said.
The building's residents were warned by sirens about the impending attack, but did not have enough time to escape, reports said.
Speaking to the BBC after the attack, local resident Yerumichael Simon said: "I live across the street and I used to live inside that building. We grew up together."
"It's very hard for me to think about what happened. At 08:00 in the morning we heard the alarm and a big boom. When I went outside I saw the big hole".
Meanwhile, five Palestinians - including three militants - were killed in Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Palestinian medics said. There were no immediate details about the exact locations of the strikes.
After a relatively quiet night, violence picked up again in the morning the BBC's Jon Donnison in Gaza City says.
He says vapour trails from rockets being fired by Palestinian militants can be seen, and intermittently large mushrooms of smoke appear from Israeli air strikes.
Reports in Israel's media say that a rocket hit a house in Ashdod without causing injuries and another rocket landed close to a school in Beer Tuvya. There were also reports of rockets landing in Ofakim and Ashkelon.
Hamas on Thursday said it had fired missiles at Tel Aviv - but the claim was denied as "psychological propaganda" by the Israel Defence Forces.
So far the violence does not appear on the same scale as the last Gaza war almost four years ago when hundreds of Palestinians were killed on the first day of Israel's operation, our correspondent adds. Thirteen Israelis also died in that conflict.
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The BBC's Jon Donnison says Gaza has been filled with the sounds of militants' rockets taking off and Israeli missiles landing
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that his country is prepared to extend its operation against Hamas.
Israeli defence ministry spokesman Joshua Hantman told the BBC that about one million Israelis across the country were now in the range of fire from militants.
He added that a ground offensive was "an option if we need to".
Meanwhile, Israeli Transport Minister Israel Katz told the BBC that "if the shooting doesn't stop, Israel will also target [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh".
Responding to Wednesday's strike, Hamas warned that the killing of 52-year-old Jabari would "open the gates of hell" for Israel.
In Gaza City, large crowds gathered for his funeral, vowing revenge attacks.
Among those killed in the Israeli air strikes in the last two days was the 11-month-old son of a BBC Arabic Service cameraman in Gaza City. The child, Omar, died from severe burns in hospital,. His brother and uncle were critically injured.
Hamas leaders assassinated by Israel
- Jan 1996, Gaza: Hamas chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash killed by mobile phone packed with explosives
- July 2002, Gaza: Salah Shehada, leader of Hamas military wing, killed by bomb dropped on his house
- Mar 2004, Gaza: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, killed by missile strike
- Apr 2004, Gaza: Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, co-founder and leader of Hamas, killed in missile strike
- Jan 2009, Gaza: Said Siyam, senior Hamas commander, killed in air strike
An emergency closed session of the UN Security Council was held at the request of Egypt late on Wednesday to discuss the situation.
The Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told the meeting that Israel was "vulgarly and publicly boasting about its wilful killing of Palestinians".
US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice defended Israel's actions.
"There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organisations are employing against the people of Israel," Mrs Rice told the session.
In other diplomatic reaction:
- US President Barack Obama spoke to Mr Netanyahu by telephone on Wednesday evening, with both men agreeing that Hamas needed to halt its attacks on Israel to allow the situation to de-escalate, the White House said
- UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "gravely concerned by the situation in Gaza and southern Israel", urging all the sides involved to "avoid any action which risks civilian casualties or escalates the crisis"
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Mr Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, expressing concern at the "deteriorating situation"
- Arab League foreign ministers say they will meet in emergency session on Friday to discuss the escalating violence
- Egyptian President Mursi also spoke to President Obama and agreed on the importance of working to calm the situation as quickly as possible, the White House said.
Neighbouring Egypt condemned the strikes, recalled its ambassador to Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador in Cairo. It also called for UN and Arab League meetings.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Cairo, says Egypt's reaction to events in Gaza will be followed closely.
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