Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned on Sunday of a “lengthy and troublesome battle” forward, a day after Palestinian militants launched one of many largest assaults in years from the Gaza Strip, sending hundreds of rockets into central and southern components of the nation as closely armed gunmen crossed border fences into Israeli communities.
Israel responded with heavy airstrikes on Gazan cities, which continued into Monday morning. Hamas, a militant group that controls Gaza, additionally continued to fireside rockets into Israel in a single day.
Listed here are photos from the confrontation.
This gallery incorporates graphic photos.
Monday
Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile system intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel.
Palestinians inspecting harm to their properties in Gaza Metropolis.
A marriage photograph in a constructing in Ashkelon that was hit by rockets.
An Israeli soldier praying alongside the Israeli facet of the Gaza border.
Rescuers eradicating an individual from underneath the rubble of a home destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Israeli troopers taking cowl throughout a rocket assault from Gaza, in Sderot.
A constructing in Ashkelon that was broken by rockets fired from Gaza.
Destruction in a Gaza Metropolis neighborhood after Israeli airstrikes.
Harm at a refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis.
Sunday
The Nationwide Islamic Financial institution, in central Gaza, was bombed on Sunday.
Israeli troopers leaving a shelter after rocket sirens had been sounded in Sderot, Israel, as they looked for remaining Hamas gunmen from Gaza in a residential neighborhood close to the place gunmen had taken over a police station.
A constructing in Tel Aviv a day after it was hit.
A constructing broken in strikes in Gaza Metropolis.
An injured girl along with her little one after an Israeli airstrike close to their home within the central Gaza Strip.
Looking by way of the rubble of a home within the Gazan city of Khan Younis.
A blindfolded Palestinian prisoner chatting with a member of the Israeli safety forces on the border with Gaza, close to the southern Israeli metropolis of Ashkelon.
Gabriel Trigun taking cowl beside his automobile as rockets launched from Gaza had been intercepted by the Iron Dome air-defense system in Sderot.
A rocket fired from Gaza touchdown in Sderot.
Palestinian residents inspecting their property in Gaza Metropolis.
Palestinians carrying the physique of one in every of their family who was killed within the Israeli raids on Gaza Metropolis.
A mom crying subsequent to the physique of her son — who was killed within the Israeli raids — on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital.
Watan Tower, which has places of work and retailers within the heart of Gaza Metropolis, was destroyed by Israeli warplanes.
Israeli troopers coordinating actions close to Sderot.
A mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, within the Gaza Strip.
Israeli troopers in an meeting space close to the Gaza Strip.
An toddler sleeping in a eating room in Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev after being rescued with a household that was hiding in a home in Kibbutz Kfar.
Tali Touito, a resident of Sderot, described how Hamas gunmen attacked and took over the police station on her road.
Vehicles broken in an assault by Hamas gunmen on a highway in Sderot.
Saturday
A lady working to the concrete shelter at her house in Ashkelon, Israel, after a rocket siren sounded.
Rockets being fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. The assault started with out warning at about 6:30 a.m. on the Jewish Sabbath, and nearly 50 years to the day since a shock assault by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Israel that set off the 1973 battle.
A resident of Ashkelon, about 10 miles north of the Gaza Strip, searching the window of his household’s residence at destruction attributable to a rocket fired from Gaza.
The our bodies of Israelis killed by Palestinian militants who entered from the Gaza Strip lay coated within the southern Israeli metropolis of Sderot.
Palestinian militants driving a seized Israeli navy automobile.
Members of Israeli safety forces carrying a wounded particular person in Ashkelon. Israel’s Well being Ministry stated greater than 1,400 individuals had been wounded.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Palestinian youngsters trying towards the sky as they hear the sound of airstrikes. Households sought refuge at a United Nations Aid and Works Company faculty in Gaza.
Smoke rising after Israeli strikes in Gaza. Dozens of Israeli fighter jets hit targets within the Gaza Strip, the Israeli navy stated.
Our bodies strewn on a highway in Sderot, Israel. Israeli civilians had been killed by gunmen within the space on Saturday, however the whole variety of victims was not but clear.
Residents within the Gaza Strip fleeing from close to the border with Israel.
Kin mourning over the our bodies of Palestinian militants on the mortuary of a hospital in Gaza Metropolis.
Palestinians celebrating over a burned Israeli automobile in Gaza.
A constructing ablaze in Tel Aviv after rocket assaults.
Israeli rescue groups tending to a person in a constructing that obtained a direct hit in Ashkelon.
A broken residence in Ashkelon.
Israelis donating blood in Jerusalem.
An Israeli navy automobile burning after it was hit by Palestinian gunmen.
Smoke rising from a high-rise constructing in Gaza Metropolis after Israeli warplanes focused it on Saturday.
Members of the Israeli forces taking cowl in Ashkelon.
The aftermath of a rocket strike in Ashkelon.
Yeshayahu Lobby, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, at his house in Ashkelon after surveying rocket harm to a home underneath development subsequent door.
An aerial view of Ashkelon exhibiting automobiles on hearth as rockets had been launched from the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli girl mourning a relative killed by Palestinian militants in Sderot.
Palestinians breaking into the Israeli facet of the Israel-Gaza border fence.
Carrying the physique of a Palestinian militant killed in Gaza.
Residents of Ashkelon, Israel, reacting after studying that over 200 Israelis had been killed in assaults across the nation on Saturday. The residents had been gathered at a synagogue, which doubles as a bomb shelter, to watch Simchat Torah, a Jewish vacation celebrating the tip of the annual cycle of weekly Torah readings.
A baby retrieved a toy from his household’s house, which was broken by a close-by strike in Gaza Metropolis.
Smoke rising within the Rehovot space, south of Tel Aviv, as rockets had been launched from Gaza.
Looking of a broken constructing in Ashkelon.
The aftermath of an airstrike in Gaza Metropolis.