The Israeli military says it has shot down more rockets sent by Palestinian militants as Israel's major air offensive over the Gaza Strip enters its second day.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said the military intercepted a total of eight rockets sent from Gaza on Wednesday.
Two were intercepted over Tel Aviv, three over Ashdod and three over the city Ashkelon.
In Gaza, meanwhile, news agency AP is reporting that a further 14 Palestinians have been killed in fresh Israeli strikes.
A wounded Palestinian is stretchered into hospital The fatalities come after at least 23 people, including children, were killed overnight in the biggest Israeli assault on Gaza in nearly two years.
The Israeli military said it targeted 160 sites, bringing the total number of targets hit as part of "Operation Protective Edge" to 440.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told Sky News the operation is a "defensive" measure, taken in response to scores of rockets fired across the border by the Islamist militant group Hamas.
The exchange of fire marks the heaviest fighting between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, since an eight-day battle in November 2012.
The Israeli cabinet has warned it may now send ground troops into Gaza, and has authorised the call-up of as many as 40,000 reservists.
A house in Gaza destroyed by an Israeli attack Hamas has targeted numerous cities including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in recent days.
IDF confirmed that one rocket landed as far away as Hadera, which is 60 miles from the Gaza Strip.
In Holon, in central Israel, wedding guests were forced to run to shelter after sirens alerted them to incoming missiles.
Video footage shows the Iron Dome defence system intercept an incoming rocket.
IDF also posted an image on Twitter which it said shows rockets being sent from civilian areas in Gaza.
The IDF says Hamas is firing from civilian areas. Pic: IDF/Twitter It captioned the picture: "PROOF: #Hamas fires at Israel from populated areas and uses Palestinians in #Gaza as human shields."
Announcing the start of "Operation Protective Edge", Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said continued rocket attacks on Israeli communities would not be tolerated.
"Therefore I have ordered the military to significantly broaden its operation against Hamas terrorists and against the other terrorist groups inside Gaza," he said on national TV.
Israeli tanks at the southern border with the Gaza Strip "I call on you to display patience because this operation could take time."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Israeli offensive as an "orchestrated and brutal aggression."
He said he had called on the international community and the United Nations to "provide international protection for our people."
Israel and Hamas had, until recently, been observing a truce that ended the 2012 hostilities.
Tensions have increased since the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12.
Israel blamed Hamas and launched a crackdown on the group's members and arrested hundreds of people.
The situation deteriorated last week after the bodies of the Israeli youths were found and a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem was abducted and burned to death in what was viewed as a revenge attack.
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