Palestinian rockets struck deep inside Israel on Thursday, landing closer to the urban sprawl south of Tel Aviv, and Israeli aircraft pounded targets in Gaza in a surging conflict that has raised fears of a new war. Israeli police said long-range Grad rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hit Ashdod and an area north of the Mediterranean port. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
-- Woman killed in Jerusalem bombing was British
Emergency services said one of the rockets landed near Yavneh, a town 45 km (28 miles) from Gaza and 20 km (12 miles) from Tel Aviv. That area came under rocket attack in the December 2008-January 2009 Gaza war.
Violence along the Gaza border has worsened in recent days and a bomb attack on Wednesday in Jerusalem that Israeli police blamed on Palestinian militants killed one woman and injured 30 people. It was the first such bombing in the city since 2004.
Britain identified the woman as a British national and Israeli police said she was a tourist. The Israeli military said five rockets and a mortar bomb from Gaza exploded in Israel, causing no casualties. Schools remained closed in Ashdod and in Beersheba, a city in the Negev desert struck several times in the past week.
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