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Rockets are fired from Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas militants. US President Joe Biden is due to visit Israel on Wednesday, 12 days after Gaza-based Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on 7 October, triggering a full-scale war that has claimed thousands of lives, most of them civilians on both sides. IMAGES
Rockets are launched from Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas militants. IMAGES
A barrage of rockets is fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, some intercepted by the Iron Dome defence system, on the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has killed 26 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. IMAGES
Smoke rises over Rafah after an Israeli strike on the southern Gazan city. Israel has for two months threatened to invade the city in its mission to destroy Hamas. Soon after the war in Gaza began on October 7, Israel told Palestinians living in the north of Gaza to move to "safe zones" in the territory's south such as Rafah. IMAGES
Smoke billows following Israeli bombardment on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. 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).