As rockets struck the holy city of Jerusalem for the first time, Israel intensified the air assault on the Gaza Strip virtually levelling the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government amid strong signs of a possible ground invasion.
According to a BBC report, the building which Egypt's PM Hisham Qandil visited on Friday, suffered extensive damages from the air attack.
Israeli rockets then targeted the headquarters of the Hamas police force in western Gaza City and the government's internal security headquarters in the north of the city. A
fter a relatively quiet overnight, heavy bombing began over the Gaza City on Sunday targeting at least 180 sites since midnight, the report said.
The Israeli government approved the proposal to call nearly 75,000 reservists to combat if needed, more than doubling the number of an earlier plan. Heavy armour and large number of soldiers are seen staging near the Gaza border signalling a possible move towards a ground invasion.
Jerusalem was hit by at least two dull thuds which Hamas's military wing claimed were rockets fired by them from Gaza, 48 miles away, targeting the Israeli Parliament, reports New York Times. Rockets also hit Tel Aviv; however, no injuries or damages were reported.
An official blog post from the Israel Defense Forces said it has targeted dozens of terror sites including tunnels, weapons storage facilities and medium-range rocket launching sites across the Gaza Strip, severely damaging rocket launching capabilities apart from the government buildings.
At least 30 Palestinians and three Israelis have died since the heavy air offensive between the two sides that began with the murder of Hamas's military chief on Wednesday.
