Three people have been killed as rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel, amid escalating violence.
They died when a four-storey building in the town of Kiryat Malachi was hit.
It marks the first Israeli fatalities since Israel killed Hamas' military chief in Gaza on Wednesday.
Eleven Palestinians - mainly militants but also children - have been killed in the ensuing Israeli operation. Since then, more than 130 rockets have been fired into Israel, police say.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into Israel by militants in Gaza, and Israel carried out numerous air strikes as cross-border violence soared in recent weeks.
Israel said the head of Hamas' military wing, Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, who died when his car was hit in Gaza City, was responsible for all attacks from Gaza in the past decade.
'Gates of hell'After a relatively quiet night, violence picked up again in the morning the BBC's Jon Donnison in Gaza City says.
He says vapour trails from rockets being fired by Palestinian militants can be seen, and intermittently large mushrooms of smoke appear from Israeli air strikes.
Reports in Israel's media say that a rocket hit a house in Ashdod without causing injuries and another rocket landed close to a school in Beer Tuvya. There were also reports of rockets landing in Ofakim and Ashkelon.
Hamas on Thursday claimed it had fired missiles at Tel Aviv - but this has not been confirmed by the Israeli military.
So far the violence does not appear on the same scale as the last Gaza war almost four years ago when hundreds of Palestinians were killed on the first day of Israel's operation, our correspondent adds. Thirteen Israelis also died in that conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier warned that his country was prepared to extend its operation against Hamas.
Meanwhile, Hamas said that the killing of 52-year-old Jabari would "open the gates of hell" for Israel.
In Gaza City, large crowds gathered for his funeral, vowing revenge attacks.
Among those killed in the Israeli air strikes was the baby of a BBC Arabic Service cameraman in Gaza City.
CondemnationAn emergency closed session of the UN Security Council was held at the request of Egypt late on Wednesday to discuss the situation.
The Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told the meeting that Israel was "vulgarly and publicly boasting about its wilful killing of Palestinians".
- Jan 1996, Gaza: Hamas chief bomb maker Yahya Ayyash killed by mobile phone packed with explosives
- July 2002, Gaza: Salah Shehada, leader of Hamas military wing, killed by bomb dropped on his house
- Mar 2004, Gaza: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, killed by missile strike
- Apr 2004, Gaza: Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, co-founder and leader of Hamas, killed in missile strike
- Jan 2009, Gaza: Said Siyam, senior Hamas commander, killed in air strike
US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice defended Israel's actions.
"There is no justification for the violence that Hamas and other terrorist organisations are employing against the people of Israel," Mrs Rice told the session.
In other diplomatic reaction:
- US President Barack Obama spoke to Mr Netanyahu by telephone on Wednesday evening, with both men agreeing that Hamas needed to halt its attacks on Israel to allow the situation to de-escalate, the White House said.
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Mr Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, expressing concern at the "deteriorating situation"
- Arab League foreign ministers say they will meet in emergency session on Friday to discuss the escalating violence
- Egyptian President Mursi also spoke to President Obama and agreed on the importance of working to calm the situation as quickly as possible, the White House said.
Neighbouring Egypt condemned the strikes, recalled its ambassador to Israel, summoned the Israeli ambassador in Cairo as well as calling for UN and Arab League meetings.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Cairo, says Egypt's reaction to events in Gaza will be followed closely.
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