http://www.news.com.au/world/israeli-military-gaza-militants-trade-fire-as-resid...Three Israelis killed as Hamas rockets rain down while 19 die in Gaza attacks
ISRAELI aircraft pummelled the rocket arsenals of Gaza militants on Friday and signaled a ground invasion might be growing near as troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers massed near Israel's southern border with the Palestinian territory.

Fighting between the two sides escalated sharply with a first-ever militant attack on the Tel Aviv area, menacing Israel's heartland.
No casualties were reported, but three people died in the country's rocket-scarred south when a projectile slammed into an apartment building.
The death toll in the densely populated Palestinian territory climbed to 19, including five children according to Palestinian health officials, as waves of Israeli fighter planes and drones sent missiles hurtling down on suspected weapons stores and rocket-launching sites.
Three Israelis dead as violence rages

Israel and Hamas had largely observed an informal truce since Israel's devastating incursion into Gaza four years ago, but rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes on militant operations didn't halt entirely.
Troops massing on the border
At least 12 trucks were seen transporting tanks and armored personnel carriers toward Gaza late Thursday, and buses carrying soldiers headed toward the border area.
Israeli TV stations said a Gaza operation was expected on Friday, though military officials said no decision had been made.
"We will continue the attacks and we will increase the attacks, and I believe we will obtain our objectives," said Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel's military chief.
An Israeli ground offensive could be costly to both sides. In the last Gaza war, Israel devastated large areas of the territory, setting back Hamas' fighting capabilities but also paying the price of increasing diplomatic isolation because of a civilian death toll numbering in the hundreds.

The Iron Dome defence system fires to intercept incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod on Thursday. Picture: Tsafrir Abayov
Peace offering
Israel has agreed to halt a massive aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip during a visit Friday by Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil provided militants also hold their fire, an Israeli official said.
"Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu has agreed to an Egyptian request to cease fire during the visit to Gaza this morning by the Egyptian prime minister, a visit that is supposed to last some three hours," the senior official told AFP.
"In our response forwarded to the Egyptians, Israel has said that the IDF (Israeli military) will cease fire on the condition that during that period there won't be hostile fire from Gaza into Israel."
Israeli war planes carried out multiple new air strikes on the Gaza Strip, including several hits on Gaza City, early Friday, the third day of an intensive operation against Gaza militants, AFP reporters and Hamas security sources said.
Israel under fire
The Israeli Defence Force said more than 300 rockets had been fired at Israel in the past few days, with one rocket hitting the central city Rishon Lezion, about 60 km from the Gaza Strip.
The IDF said three people were killed when a rocket landed on their home.

The trail of an Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defence missile system is seen along the Gaza border in response to a rocket launched from the nearby Palestinian Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. Israel will take "whatever action is necessary" to defend its citizens from Palestinian rocket attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as the military pressed a massive operation in Gaza. AFP / Jack Guez
Palestinian deaths from relentless air strikes rose to 19 overnight Thursday.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard joined a growing chorus of world leaders condemning the rocket attacks and urging both sides to show restraint.
"The Government condemns the repeated rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip and calls on Hamas to cease these immediately,'' she said.
"Australia supports Israel's right to defend itself against these indiscriminate attacks. Such attacks on Israel's civilian population are utterly unacceptable."
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but dead palestinians ok and cool government says?
forgiven