There have been fresh exchanges of fire between Israel and Hamas militants despite a temporary ceasefire in place for a visit by Egypt's Prime Minister to Gaza.
Several sites in southern Israel have been hit by rockets fired from inside the Gaza Strip - the Israeli air force responding by attacking a Hamas commander's house.
Sky's Middle East Producer Tom Rayner said: "We've seen at least 4 rockets launched from Northern Gaza in the last 10 minutes - ceasefire may be over before it has even really begun."
Hisham Kandil has already condemned Israeli action against Gaza as "unacceptable aggression" - and says his country will intensify efforts to secure a truce in the conflict.
"Egypt will not hesitate to intensify its efforts and make sacrifices to stop this aggression and achieve a lasting truce," he said at a press conference in Gaza City's Shifa hospital after seeing some victims from the latest strike.
Sixteen thousand Israeli army reservists have been called up and heavy artillery has been seen on the Gaza border, increasing the possibility of a ground attack. Israel has given the green light to the call-up of up to 30,000 army reservists.
An interior ministry building in Gaza City comes under fire from Israel The Palestinian territory suffered a second night of heavy bombardment, with Israeli warplanes hitting targets in and around Gaza City.
"There have been 130 strikes overnight until now," Hamas interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said.
He said the strikes destroyed a building belonging to the interior ministry, while there were also reports that training positions used by various Palestinian militant groups had also been hit.
The Israeli army said 11 Palestinian rockets had been fired from Gaza at Israel overnight.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier said all offensive actions would be called off during Mr Kandil's visit - as long as Palestinian groups refrain from firing rockets across the border.
Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil A senior Israeli official said: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to an Egyptian request to cease all offensive operations in Gaza during the visit of the Egyptian prime minister there this morning, which is supposed to last for about three hours.
"In the answer that has been forwarded to Egyptians, we've said that the Israel Defence Forces will cease fire on the condition that there won't be fire from Gaza into Israel during that period."
Two days of Israeli air strikes have killed 19 Palestinians, including seven militants and 12 civilians - among them six children and a pregnant woman. A Palestinian rocket killed three Israelis in the town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday.
Two more rockets from Gaza landed near Tel Aviv in the first such attack on Israel's commercial capital in 20 years. One fell into the Mediterranean Sea and the other in an uninhabited part of one of the suburbs south of the city.
Prime Minister David Cameron has blamed Hamas militants for the escalation of violence in a phone call to Mr Netanyahu.
A Downing Street spokesperson said: "The Prime Minister said that he was extremely concerned by the dangerous situation and deeply sorry for the loss of civilian life on both sides.
"He said the rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups were completely unacceptable and that the increasing frequency of rocket attacks in recent days was the immediate cause of the situation.
An Israeli armoured vehicle moves towards the border with the Gaza Strip "He made clear that Hamas bears the principal responsibility for crisis.
"The Prime Minister said that the priority must be to de-escalate the crisis. He called on Mr Netanyahu to do all he could to avoid civilian casualties and emphasised that both sides needed to avoid a spiral of violence that would be in no-one's interest, particularly at a time of instability in the region."
Israel's "Pillar of Defence'' operation, which it said was in response to an escalating barrage of rocket fire from Gaza, began with the targeted assassination of Hamas' top military commander Ahmed al Jaabar on Wednesday.
The resurgent conflict has confronted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi with the biggest test yet of his commitments - to his fellow Islamists and to Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
He is also under pressure to show Egyptians that his policies differ from those of his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, who came under fire from the Muslim Brotherhood, which brought Mr Morsi to power.
Mr Morsi has rejected what he has called Israel's aggression in Gaza, saying that it threatens to destabilise the nation.
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