Liveblog July 9 (closed)
Hamas rockets reach the north, Abbas charges Israel with genocide
On second day of Operation Protective Edge, Dimona targeted with rockets; Peres says Gaza ground offensive ‘may happen quite soon’; PM vows to intensify conflict; another sea infiltration foiled
- Israelis look at a crater caused by a rocket outside a shop in Ashdod, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- A rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yeshuv/Flash90)
- Damage caused by a missile strike in Ashdod on July 8, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)
- Smoke and debris rise after an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- A soldier stands in a field near the Gaza border with IDF APCs (Armed Personnel Carriers) in the background, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- Israeli police inspect the site where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza, hit in the area of Ramat Raziel, near Jerusalem. July 8, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
- Shoppers watch TV broadcasts about the offensive Israel launched against the Gaza Strip, with a series of airstrikes in response to increasing rocket attacks fired into Israel. July 08, 2014. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
- IDF APCs (Armed Personnel Carriers) are seen near the Gaza border in southern Israel on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
- A Palestinian man removes a piece of furniture from the rubble of a home which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun, in the northern of Gaza Strip on July 9 2014. (photo credit: AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)
- Rockets fired out of Gaza into Israel Tuesday night. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash90)