Smoke and flames pour from a highrise building after an Israeli force strike in Gaza City on Saturday. (Photo: Reuters)SDEROT, Israel - The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack against Israel on Saturday, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza and sending ground units to kill or abduct people as Israel retaliated with air strikes. (Story continues below)A man carries a crying child as he walks in front of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Rocket impacts left cars burning beneath residential buildings in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, north of Gaza. The vast majority of fatalities have occurred in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
