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One killed, two seriously hurt as rocket strikes Ashkelon apartment building

By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross

Man found under rubble of four-story building first fatality in Israel after over 300 missiles fired at cities and towns near Gaza

A convoy of Israeli tanks on the highway near the southern Israeli town of Sderot, on November 12, 2018. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

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An Israeli woman inspects the damage in an apartment that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon on November 12, 2018. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

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