<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today visited a southern town Sderot bordering Gaza that was pummelled with rockets over the weekend from the strip. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr Netanyahu's visit to the town comes a day after an informal cease-fire took hold to end 24 hours of intense fighting with Gaza's Hamas militants that had threatened to devolve into all-out war. He told community leaders that Israel is engaged in a lengthy battle.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Israel pounded Hamas targets in its most massive bombardment since the 2014 war, while militants fired dozens of rockets toward Israel that halted daily life in the area. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Two Palestinian teenagers were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, while four Israelis were injured from a rocket that landed on a residential home in Sderot. On Saturday, the Israeli military struck several Hamas military compounds and flattened a number of its training camps. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hamas retaliated with more than 200 rockets and mortars toward Israeli communities. </div>