Jerusalem: Palestinian militants fired a barrage of rockets toward Israeli cities and villages on Saturday, drawing air strikes from Israeli aircraft, the Israeli military said.
Israel Radio said at least 50 rockets were fired in the space of about 30 minutes, some deep into southern Israel.
There were no reports of Israeli casualties as many of the rockets were intercepted and rockets alerts sent residents running to their shelters. There are reports of four Palestinians killed since Friday.
The flare-up followed the killing in an Israeli air strike on Friday of two militants from the Islamist Hamas group which rules Gaza. The Israeli military said the air strike was a retaliation to gunfire from Gaza that had wounded two of its soldiers near the border.