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Cars are on fire after they were hit by rockets from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel

Video. Watch: Cars on fire after rocket barrages from Gaza hit Israel

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More than 5,000 rockets had been fired so far from the Gaza Strip, the armed wing of Hamas which controls the blockaded coastal enclave said.

Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn on Saturday as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said.

Rockets streamed across the sky repeatedly after the first launches from multiple locations across the Palestinian territory from 6:30 am local time.

The flare-up follows months of surging violence, with fatalities in the occupied West Bank hitting a scale not seen in years.

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