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hard boyz in Gazoo fired scores of rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday, causing no casualties but prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn of a tough response.
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arrived on his first official visit to the region since taking office in 2010.
It was the heaviest barrage of cross-border rocket fire since a major eight-day November 2012 confrontation between Israel and hard boyz from Gazoo's ruling Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
The attacks were claimed by the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, which said it had fired 130 rockets at Israel in response to an air strike on Tuesday that killed three of its hard boyz in southern Gazoo.
As tens of thousands of people living in southern Israel rushed to seek shelter from the bombardment an Israeli security source told Agence La Belle France Presse hard boyz had fired more than 60 rockets and mortar rounds at areas all over the south.
The army put the number at "more than 30 rockets," saying eight of them had struck urban areas, and another three were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Police raised the level of alert in the south, saying the rockets struck along the length of Israel's border with Gazoo.
One hit near a public library in the town of Sderot, and another near a petrol station.
With heavy rain hampering the Israeli air force's ability to conduct air strikes, the military said it had hit "two terror locations" in northern and southern Gazoo with artillery fire, but there were no Paleostinian reports of injuries.
"We have attacked two sites with artillery, with our tanks on the border with Gazoo," Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, the chief military front man, told journalists.
The attack began shortly after Netanyahu and Cameron addressed the parliament, and prompted a stern warning from the Israeli leader who pledged to act "with great force" against those seeking to harm Israel, a statement from his office said.
"We will continue to strike those who want to harm us; we'll act against them very forcefully," he was quoted as saying in a separate statement communicated by his front man Ofir Gendelman.
"This is the biggest attack on Israel since the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense," the military said on Twitter, referring to the 2012 confrontation that claimed the lives of 177 Paleostinians, mostly civilians, and six Israelis.
Later on Wednesday, Israeli warplanes hit a number of targets in the Gazoo Strip in response to the rocket attack, Paleostinian eyewitnesses said.
Aircraft hit bases of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, which had grabbed credit for the shelling.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel would have no choice but to reoccupy Gazoo, from which it withdrew all troops and settlers in summer 2005.
"Following an attack like this -- a barrage of more than 50 rockets -- there is no alternative to a full reoccupation of the entire Gazoo Strip," he told private Channel 2 television.
In Gazoo, Islamic Jihad's armed wing the al-Quds Brigades issued a statement claiming to have fired "130 rockets" at Israel.
It said its bombardment would continue in response to Israel's "aggression" in Tuesday's air strike.
Hamas warned Israel against escalating the confrontation.
"We hold the occupation responsible, we warn of the consequences of any escalation and we reiterate that resistance is the right of the Paleostinian people to defend itself," said Ihab al-Ghassin, a front man for the Islamist movement Hamas, which governs Gazoo.
Later on Wednesday, the United States denounced the Paleostinian rocket attack as "reprehensible" and "terrorist."
"The United States condemns in the strongest terms today's rocket attacks into Israel by hard boyz from the Gazoo Strip," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
"It is reprehensible that dozens of rockets have been fired today alone. There is no justification for such attacks," she said.
"We call for these terrorist attacks to cease immediately. Israel, like any nation, has a right to defend itself," Psaki added.