Israel has launched air and sea strikes on more than 50 targets in the Gaza Strip to quell the rocket and mortar attacks over the border by Hamas militants.
The Israeli military said the campaign - dubbed Operation Protective Edge - could form part of an extended offensive on the Hamas-ruled territory and is in retaliation for the attacks against it.
"They chose the direction of escalation," said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
"So the mission will go on as long as we feel it is necessary to carry it out. We don't expect it to be a short mission on our behalf."
A Palestinian man wounded in an Israeli airstrike receives treatment He added that additional reservists were being recruited for a possible ground invasion of Gaza.
Among the sites targeted by the aerial and naval assaults were four homes of alleged Hamas operatives, concealed rocket launchers, militant compounds and training bases.
Palestinian media reported at least 15 people, including a child, had been injured. An emergency services spokesman said four people had been killed, including a man in an area close to the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
There was also a suggestion one of the houses targeted was of a senior Hamas military-wing figure.
A Palestinian boy carries belongings from a bombed house Sky's Middle East Reporter Tom Rayner, on the Israel-Gaza border, said: "Israel says it has also intercepted rockets. This morning we have seen about four or five rockets fired from northern Gaza towards southern Israeli cities."
Hamas warned Israel had "crossed a red line" and would pay the price, threatening an "earthquake" in response to the attacks.
"If this policy does not stop, we will respond by enlarging the radius of our targets to the point where the enemy will be surprised," the group's military wing said in a statement.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded Israel end its assault and called on the international community "to immediately intervene to halt this dangerous escalation which would lead the region to more destruction and instability".
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza International Airport in Rafah on Monday The Israeli military said close to 100 rockets had been fired at southern Israel on Monday alone.
Israel responded with dozens of airstrikes and eight Palestinian militants were killed.
Tensions in the region have been inflamed following the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers - Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach - and the suspected revenge killing of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khadair.
The bodies of the three young Israelis were discovered in shallow graves on June 30, nearly three weeks after they disappeared while hitchhiking home.
Mohammed was burned alive, according to a preliminary post-mortem examination. He was found in the Jerusalem Forest last week.
Three of the six people arrested over his death have reportedly confessed but charges are yet to be brought.
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