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In pictures: Israeli strikes threaten new Gaza war

Israeli attacks into the blockaded Palestinian enclave and counter rocket attacks from Gaza also marks the most serious escalation since 2014.

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Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a television station in Gaza City, November 12, 2018.

Since Sunday, Israel's raids in Gaza –– first in a botched attack that followed Hamas retaliation, and then air strikes –– have resulted in the killing of 13 Palestinians, an Israeli soldier and an Israeli civilian.

The cross-fence Israeli attacks into Hamas-governed Gaza also marked the most serious escalation since an Israel-Hamas war in 2014.

International mediators have appealed for restraint, hoping to avert another war.

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A ball of fire above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike. (November 12, 2018)

Six Palestinians were killed and many wounded in Gaza in less than 24 hours as Israeli bombs hit the Palestinian enclave, flattening buildings and sending fireballs and plumes of smoke into the sky.

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Palestinians inspect the damage in a residential neighbourhood in Gaza City, following Israeli air strikes targeting the area overnight. (November 13, 2018)

Sirens wailed in southern Israel and tens of thousands of residents took cover in shelters as around 400 rockets and mortar rounds were fired from Gaza, according to Israeli officials, wounding 27 people, including three severely.

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People look at the rubble of a building in Gaza City after an Israeli air strike. (November 13, 2018)

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A general view of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, as an Iron Dome anti-missile fires near the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza fence, November 12, 2018.

Schools were closed in Gaza and in southern Israel as both sides warned the other that it would respond forcefully to any further violence.

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A Palestinian girl looks on as searches for her belongings at the stairs of her family house that was damaged in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City. (November 13, 2018)

Hamas says it was retaliating for a botched Israeli commando raid in Gaza that killed one of its commanders and six other members on Sunday.

An Israeli colonel was also killed in that incident.

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An Israeli man stands on the balcony of a building damaged by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon. (November 13, 2018)

Israel and Palestinians in Gaza have fought three wars since 2008, and protests and clashes along Gaza's fence with Israel since March 30 have repeatedly raised fears of a fourth.