(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121115-israel-3killed-2a.photoblog600.jpg)Tsafrir Abayov / APAn Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table from an apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, killing three people in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Thursday. By Lawahez Jabari, NBC NewsUpdated 5:15 a.m. ET: Rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel killed three people and injured six on Thursday, Israeli officials said, as Israel launched numerous airstrikes across the Gaza Strip and the military showdown lurched closer to all-out war.
Eleven Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured in Gaza since Wednesday.
The funeral was being held Thursday for Ahmed Jabari, the senior Hamas military commander, who was one of those killed in the Israeli Defense Force airstrikes.
The IDF said on its website (http://www.idf.il/1283-17570-EN/Dover.aspx) that the three people who died in Israel Thursday were civilians.
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