Gaza rockets kill father and teen daughter in central Israel

An Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday that some 850 rockets were fired at Israel since Monday afternoon, and an additional 200 rockets fell inside the besieged coastal enclave.

The spokesperson said that about 90 percent of the rockets were intercepted by the anti-rocket Iron Dome system.

In an overnight attack, militants in Gaza fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and other cities in central Israel.

In the attack, Khalil Awad, 52, and his 16-year-old daughter Nadin, Arab citizens of Israel, and residents of Dahamsh, an impoverished town east of Tel Aviv, were killed, Israel's emergency health services and the police said in separate statements.

On Wednesday morning, rockets were fired also toward Israel's international Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, where all flights have been halted since Tuesday, the Airports Authority said in a statement.

Before dawn, Israeli war jets struck a building which the army said was used by operatives with the Hamas' military-intelligence apparatus. According to a military statement, several operatives were killed including Hassan Kaogi, head of Hamas' Military Intelligence Security Department and his deputy, Wail Issa, head of the Military Intelligence Counter-Espionage Department.

The military's Home Front Command said in a statement that schools in a range spanning from southern Israel to Herzliya, a city north of Tel Aviv, are canceled for Wednesday.

Five people in Israel and at least 30 in Gaza were reported dead since Monday, in the worst flare-up since Israel's major military offensive in Gaza in 2014.