Israel kills senior Gaza commanders as rockets cause first death in Israel

The hundreds of rockets launched by the Islamic Jihad, the second-biggest armed group in Gaza after the ruling Hamas Islamists, have set off sirens as far north as Tel Aviv.

Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad’s rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday.