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Israeli missiles tore through the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza on Wednesday, causing extensive damage, as Israel kept up nightly air attacks to pressure militants to release an abducted soldier.

The air strike, which wounded at least 3 people, was launched hours after militants from the governing Hamas movement fired a rocket into a main Israeli city for the first time, an attack that deepened a 10-day-old crisis.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert planned to consult with his security cabinet later in the day on stronger military action following the attack on coastal city of Ashkelon, government officials said.

Gaza residents were shaken from their beds by the now-familiar sound of a massive explosion as shrapnel and rubble flew from the five-story Interior Ministry building. The air raid damaged upper floor and adjacent apartments, where medics rushed children suffering from shock to hospital.

Another Israeli air strike targeted an empty school in northern Gaza which a military spokeswoman said was used by Hamas activists at night. There were no reports of injuries.

In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft attacked a training camp used by Hamas militants. Palestinians said the facility had been abandoned before the strike.

Israeli aircraft struck the same Interior Ministry complex on June 30, five days after gunmen from Hamas's armed wing and two other factions snatched Corporal Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid into Israel from Gaza.

The army said an upgraded Qassam rocket, powered by two engines instead of the usual single motor, and flying 12 km (7 miles), slammed into a school yard in the center of Ashkelon, a city of about 115,000 and the site of a main power plant.

No one was hurt, but Olmert made clear militants had crossed a red line in their deepest rocket attack yet into Israel.

"This is an escalation without precedent in the terrorist war waged by the Hamas movement that now controls the Palestinian Authority," Olmert said in a speech at a Independence Day celebration at the American ambassador's house.

"This (rocket) attack ... will have unprecedented, far-reaching consequences. The Hamas organization will be the first to feel them," he said, after its Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the strike.

Hamas said in a statement it was not frightened by what it termed Zionist threats. Israel has hinted it could assassinate leaders of Hamas, whose government is under an international aid embargo, if Shalit is not freed.

"If blood is shed in Gaza, the streets and communities of the Zionist entity will not be spared," Hamas said. 

Israeli armor moved into the southern Gaza Strip a week ago, taking up largely static positions at a disused airport.

Israel has also sent tanks into the northern Gaza Strip, the main launching area for Qassam rockets. But it has stopped short of a push into Gaza towns, where fighting with militants would likely be intense.

After the Ashkelon attack, an Israeli Web site, Arutz 7, quoted Defense Minister Amir Peretz as saying in an interview he had ordered the army to step up Gaza operations to bring Shalit home and halt Qassam attacks.

Militants in Gaza, territory Israel quit last year after 38 years of occupation, have been firing rockets daily into southern Israel, causing few casualties.

Many have hit Sderot, a backwater town, making less of a political impact in Israel than the attack on Ashkelon -- a city that right-wing opponents of the Gaza pullout, which Olmert backed, had predicted would eventually be hit.

(Chinadaily.com via agencies July 5, 2006)

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