Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Tel Aviv this morning but they were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome air shield, witnesses and police said.

Gaza's Hamas militants said they launched two Iranian-designed Fajr-5 rockets at Israel's commercial capital, which has come under several such salvoes since cross-border fighting with the Palestinian enclave erupted on Wednesday.

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