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Images show rockets being fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Violence has surged across the West Bank for months and intensified further since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the Palestinian militant group's unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7. IMAGES
Rockets are launched from Rafah amid ongoing exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas militants. Israel has pounded Gaza targets with thousands of strikes in the past week, leaving at least 2,215 Gazans dead, including 724 children by Saturday, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. IMAGES
Israeli security forces place the remains of a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the back of a vehicle after it landed in the southern Israeli town of Netivot amid an ongoing exchange of fire between Gaza militants and Israel. IMAGES
Smoke rises after an explosion in the southern Gaza Strip, seen from Israel. Israel hit Gaza with air strikes as world powers grappled with how to broker a ceasefire ahead of a UN Security Council vote that was expected to be blocked by a US veto. IMAGES
Images of smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, as seen from Rafah and the tent camps of displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt as the threat of an Israeli incursion into Rafah persisted Sunday. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).