GAZA\/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinian militants fired more rockets into Israel\u2019s commercial heartland on Thursday as Israel kept up a punishing bombing campaign in Gaza and massed tanks and troops on the enclave\u2019s border.<\/p>\n
The four days of cross-border violence showed no sign of abating and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign \u201cwill take more time\u201d.<\/p>\n
The violence has also spread to mixed communities of Jews and Arabs in Israel, a new front in the long conflict.<\/p>\n
Synagogues were attacked and fighting broke out on the streets of some communities, prompting Israel\u2019s president to warn of the danger of civil war.<\/p>\n
Worried that the region\u2019s worst hostilities in years could spiral out of control, the United States is sending an envoy, Hady Amr. Truce efforts by Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations have so far offered no sign of progress.<\/p>\n
In renewed air strikes on Gaza, Israeli warplanes struck a six-storey residential building that it said belonged to Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave. Netanyahu said Israel has struck close to a thousand militant targets in Gaza in total.<\/p>\n
At least 83 people have been killed in Gaza since violence escalated on Monday, medics said, further straining hospitals already under heavy pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are facing Israel and Covid-19. We are in between two enemies,\u201d said Asad Karam, 20, a construction worker, standing beside a road damaged during the air strikes. An electricity pole had collapsed by the road, its wires severed.<\/p>\n
A Palestinian rocket had earlier crashed into a building near Israel\u2019s commercial capital of Tel Aviv, injuring five Israelis, police said. Seven people have been killed in Israel since hostilities began, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n
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